Among the shadowy nation-states of worry and the unforgiving glare of technology lies a battleground of unspeakable horror. In vile alleyways with blood-slick cobblestones, impenetrable fog, and the wan glow of gaslight, lurk the inhuman denizens of nightmare.
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Higginson, “A Poet’s Haiku: Paul Muldoon,” Modern Haiku 35:2 (2004) 49. Similarly to Muldoon, Davis delights in cracking his idiom over any convention, to hatch what the alliance will. The few haiku he includes compass more affiliations, cast “Had Neruda preferred” the form. One piece, especially, presents the empathy with objects (and of objects with us) evident throughout Odas Elementales: The house heard you leave In leafless rain. I’ll wait and See—my windows ache. But in fact the haiku darkly reconfigures number 8 of Neruda’s Cien sonetos de amor(trans.
By keeping things light, Scranton can critique Loneliness, Dualism, Unintended Consequences—abstract matters like these and Love and Truth and Tolerance, all resistant to black and white treatment. "Think[ing] in shades / of gray" acknowledges nuances, but also defines a philosophical approach. It would not ring true to trumpet that, "NOW MORE THAN EVER," understanding life must be recognized as transcending mere explanation of it. Kierkegaard perceived this circumstance descriptive of all times.
Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson (New York: Library of America, 1997) 904, 912: "Poetry is a poetic conception, however expressed. A poem is poetry expressed in words. But in a poem there is a poetry of words. " Tellingly, though pointing up the unitary result, Stevens slants the dialectic in either direction. His first comment foregrounds the "conception," "express[ible]" in "a poetry of words"; his second, "the poem of words" "within" which "the idea" unfolds. H. Auden, "Introduction," The Complete Poems of Cavafy, trans.
