I by Toi Derricotte

Author:Toi Derricotte
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780822986775
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Preface

Tender is not to be read in linear fashion. Rather, it is a seven-spoked wheel, with the poem “Tender” as the hub, each “spoke” or subdivision radiating out from that center.

Violence is central in our lives, a constant and unavoidable reality. Experience is not a linear construct moving from one point to another—childhood to maturity, “bad” to “good,” beginning to end—but a wheel turning around a point that shifts between hope and despair.

“At the still point of the turning world,” the job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

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