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Recommended Reading: This One Tree
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September 27th, 2011
This One Tree by Katie Peterson
Recommended Reading
by Rachel King
When I started writing poetry, I had to stop focusing on abstractions and focus on particulars. Then I had to stop focusing on particulars and focus on the right particulars. Katie Peterson has focused on the right particulars so long that the right particulars have become the right abstractions. I know no other way to say it. Perhaps this: She understands you have to be in the world to be in the other side of it. “The invisible hurts most, / the forgotten makes no sense / because it is invisible. / No rip in the fabric but /there should be. Not this / canvas empty save everything else.”
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