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Oct25
Whiskey Straight from the Barrel
If reading books is like sipping Scotch in a jazz bar, then reading poetry is like drinking whiskey straight from the barrel--unprocessed, intense, and extremely intoxicating.

Still, it helps if you have somebody to guide you through the process. The Poetry Foundation features poetry interpretation essays from some of the best poets and journalists in the business.

It's a whole new toolkit for writers, and I recommend all fledgling writers spend some time drinking straight from the barrel. The writer Ignoblus showed me this essay about a Robert Hass poem, the perfect example of how one poet took a bewildering political moment and turned it into poetic history.

Check it out:

"The pleasure in 'The Nineteenth Century as a Song' is the poem’s easy movement across an uneasy era, the way it touches down on increasingly discomforting subjects as casually as a bird hops from branch to branch of a tree."


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