The Flower Can Always Be Changing by Shawna Lemay
Author:Shawna Lemay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palimpsest Press
Published: 2018-02-26T16:00:00+00:00
Poetry and Failure
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As someone who has been attempting to understand the space between poetry and essay, I find it interesting to note that the word essay means, ‘to try,’ and that likewise it hasn’t escaped me that the word poetry contains the word ‘try’ in it as well.
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Beckett’s famous line, which a tennis player of some renown has tattooed on his arm. Failure in tennis is a score of love. A poem is something you might learn by heart.
Whenever I hear essay, I hear an echo of the word, sashay. In square dancing, a sidestep. Beckett talks about the beeline, “the course you always take.” But also, “beyondless” and “thitherless.”
Thither to the gap, to the try. Sashay. With love. Learn everything with your heart.
I write on my arm but the words vanish in the shower.
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