Excellent essay written by Christian Wiman (editor of Poetry) in American Scholar. Read it here.
The sudden appearance of love
and the galvanizing prospect of death
lead a young poet back to poetry and
and the galvanizing prospect of death
lead a young poet back to poetry and
a"hope toward God"
"It is the same with us and God," she [Simone Weil] says. "Every separation is a link." . . .It has taken three events, each shattering in its way, for me to recognize both the full beauty, and the final insufficiency, of Weil's image.
