Here’s a great review by Ron Silliman of Joseph Lease’s recent poetic work Broken World. And from an interview with Joseph Lease:
We all know—in a sort of abstract way—that being born is meaningful and dying is meaningful—but the meanings get lost in our worst moments—and they are reborn in poems.
Lease is a fan of poetry as incantation, of poetry as spell. This is where power lies, as it potentially does in the voiced language of psychotherapy. And in psychotherapy, meanings too can become reborn.
