
Darrel Alejandro Holnes — Amending Wall
Poetry Unbound
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Poetry and Poetry in the Hebrew Psalms by Tarlalahandra Holness
Darrell alahandro holness takes robert frost's poem mending wall seriously enough to critique it. In a certain sense, that's paying homage to it, but saying it needs to grow. He spells america with three ks at the end. It's provocative to do this, and i think it is the job of justice. And he doesn't resolve it. If anywhere there are limits or beginnings and ends, then heaven has to be a nothing. Loving is something. Loving, it's everything, then life. Country and its borders ain't nothing but a thing. Toward the end of the poem, you can hear how darrel alessandro holness
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