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Tag Archives: Sabbatical
Sabbatical
I started this blog to correspond with my sabbatical, which began officially in January and ended when I taught my first class in September. It was a rough few days the first week, and I’m still not altogether used to … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Change, English, Poems, Poetry, poets, professors, Revise, Revision, Sabbatical, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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It Must Root in the Heart
Poetry requires living a real life. This means daily interaction with the real world with its real requirements, and its real people with their real demands. It is poetry, which becomes a kind of hermitage, a walled-off garden, in which … Continue reading
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Tagged It Must Root in the Heart, Poems, Poetry, Sabbatical, Writing
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Revise, Revise
At the end of Rilke’s poem on the busted up bust of Apollo, he concludes: You must change your life. The idea is that, after looking at this vital work of art, one that retains all its power despite or even … Continue reading
Adam Penna 