Author: carmenbugan

And so with poetry.

Eliot again (in “Little Gidding”):

“[…] You are here to kneel

Where prayer has been valid.  And prayer is more

Than an order of words, the conscious occupation

Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.”

 

If poets looked at their craft the same way Eliot looked at prayer, we would read a lot less dross.

 

http://www.harvardreview.org/?q=features/book-review/square-inch-hours

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/carmen-bugan

https://www.pw.org/content/carmen_bugan

http://www.newstalk.com/Searching-for-the-science-of-the-mind

http://www.poetrysky.com/quarterly/48/bugan.html

“There are three conditions which often look alike

Yet differ completely, fluorish in the same hedgerow:

Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment

From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference

Which resembles the others as death resembles life,

Being between two lives–unflowering, between

The live and the dead nettle.”

I have spent most of my thinking life not liking Eliot, and now I wonder why.  I suspect I will wonder for the next half of my thinking life.

 

“Carmen Bugan has the ability to transform deeply personal experiences into poetic language without losing the radiant particulars from which they sprang.” –Frank Beck

for full review, please see Vol. 18, No. 1 Fall/Winter 2017-2018

 

http://www.theenchantingverses.org/collected-poems-by-lorna-goodison-reviewed-by-carmen-bugan.html