Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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A Lament for the Earth by Alice Oswald
i was recently listening to alice oswald's latest oxford lecture, and it's called a lament for the earth. She sees two types of nature poetry, that of the sigh, which is more well mannered,. The elegy, the ode, the past oral, and that of the scream, which is related to the keen. I bring this up as an entry way into talking about death, and also about the body and the female body and poetry. i'm thinking first of my conversation with roskay, another poet who, like you, is often associated with joy and wonder and delight but also very engaged with death. He says, joy is a grave feeling
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