The Art of Voice by Tony Hoagland

Author:Tony Hoagland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

“It is correct to love even at the wrong time” says Reece’s speaker, and this paradoxical truth, arriving in the context of the poignant narrative details we have already absorbed, has a resonance inseparable from its timing and placement.

Some postmodern readers and critics have asserted that a poet should not be didactic, should not presume to generalize about human experience—it is, they claim, arrogant and politically suspect. We are right to be suspicious of politicians and demagogues who practice a kind of bullying rhetoric, but many of us read poetry in order to learn as well as to be entertained. We enjoy being in the company of someone who knows what she is talking about, or who acts like she does. For the time it takes to read a poem, we will entrust ourselves, even subordinate ourselves, to a convincing speaker, and we will relish or be enraptured by their mastery. When you are in the hands of an assured language user and an experienced thinker or feeler—to surrender is one of the true pleasures of community and art.

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