The Origins of the Field

Jay Parini: I think it's great to reflect on the origins of this term, right? The way in which we become more abstracted from the tactile and the difficult. He says a good poem travels through every iteration of its meaning from the first time it was discovered to the present moment. Parini: Seamus Haney has an amazing poem about his father and the difference between him as a poet and his father who is a worker in the field.