Poetry is not only the most sublimely difficult but the most deeply
personal of all word-arts. Close to being a spiritual autbiography,
this collection mostly strives to express what lies beyond the
reach of language. Previous readers have suggested similarities to
Neruda, Paz, Rumi, William Blake, Rilke, and Rimbaud. "Poetry," a
friend once wrote, "leads us past the indescribable and submerges
us in the experience." Just as the mountaintop has a natural
affinity for the sky it cannot touch, so poetry, as the highest
form of word-art, has a natural affinity for that which is beyond
words: beauty, horror, love, the sacred, and so on. Poetry improves
with age and repeated appreciation, like a fine wine or a well-made
violin: the more one reads a good poem the more insight it provides
to the reader; indeed, more than any other word-art, it draws us
back repeatedly to read it, to read it aloud, to linger yet again
before its beauty and marvel at its wisdom. And, finally, as
someone (it might have been me) said, "Poetry is the art of
breaking words across the silence without disturbing it." Good
poetry - unlike prose, which tends to revel in its own loquacity -
economizes to the point that what little is said does not describe,
as does prose, but points to, just as a finger points at the moon;
... for silence is as asymptotically close as we humans can get to
the perfect truth. --from the Preface
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