Chapter 1. Poetry and Photography
POETRY IS AS diverse as culture. Certain poems are esoteric and abstract while others are concrete and easy to understand. And poems show up all over the place: in song lyrics, carved into the trunk of a tree, tattooed on the back of an arm, or spoken out loud at a café. Why then poetry and photography?
What the novelist says in 20,000 words, the poet says in 20. And after reading a poem we don’t just have more information, we have more experience. A good poem isn’t about reductionism. It is about reducing, simplifying, and deepening. A poem always gives more.
And poems are spare. With so little space, they require ...
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