David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly
The New Yorker: Poetry
The Power of Death
The poem is about how life can kind of feel to a modern person. The terror of being so close to the edge, part of the narrative formula of the sublime. This is a love poem as well as it is a poem about dying or death or erasure. We go there because we love the beauty of the spectacle and it scares us.
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