Happy National Poetry Month! I like to think of ways to recognize National Poetry Month each year because of the role poetry has played in my life as a writer. I’m always surprised when I hear a prose writer say they don’t read poetry—or, worse, that they don’t understand it—because I think our writing is at its best when it reaches for the poetic (which is why I wrote
I'd like to memorize Rilke’s First Elegy. Not sure my brain can handle it.
Thanks for reminding me it’s poetry month.
Nice project to read and reread The Wasteland! I have a friend who memorized Prufrock. So much music there in Eliot for those who listen.