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Steve Knepper's avatar

If you're moved by this essay, I highly recommend Ryan Wilson's How To Think Like a Poet! https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/store/p97/How_to_Think_Like_a_Poet%2C_by_Ryan_Wilson.html

Jon's avatar

Thanks for posting here. Though I am always slightly annoyed by untranslated quotes in articles. Yes, many will understand it, but it loses nothing in translation, so just translate it.

"Mae'n drahaus, ac yn rhagdybiol" - Me.

XYZ's avatar

Great piece. I thought of Chesterton throughout, a new treasure trove of whose writings is available in Dale Ahlquist's "alternative autobiography of Chesterton, I Also Had My Hour.

Zane Paxton's avatar

Wow. This is wonderful.

John Joseph's avatar

The Poet's Vision by Ryan Wilson has the depth of a beefy steak (that becomes comfort to one's appetite). His enunciation of poetry with prose (primarily of novels) as a hospitality is awesome. My mind needs to savor that insight.

That interrelationship of poems and principles has been considered as a composite of facts, one emotional and the other cognitive. And among those floral facts so like stars, they slow dance against a midnight sky into various constellations of named concepts that guide our decisions.

And God blesses us by His profundity.

Jon Jo.