Helping Poetry Sing Again: Two books that inspire music in poetry
Rhyme’s Rooms: The architecture of poetry, by Brad Leithauser, Knopf, 2022 The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, by Ellen...
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The Poetic Drift
Buffy Aakaash
May 15, 20236 min read
The Poetics of Grief: Maxima Kahn’s Fierce Aria
“It was like hearing earth’s final act before crashing into heaven. It was a declaration of love and anguish which spoke to an estranged...
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Buffy Aakaash
Mar 16, 20233 min read
In Short: The art of intentionally failing to elaborate
I begin one of my poems called "Morsels" with, "In short," a single line, as would befit a poem about small things. The poem is about...
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Buffy Aakaash
Mar 4, 20233 min read
Exploring "Little Songs"
A review of Cindy Ellen Hill's Wild Earth My grade school education on the sonnet (from sonetto, or "little song") began and ended with...
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Buffy Aakaash
Jan 15, 20235 min read
How Poetry Heals: Metaphor’s pathway to Interconnection
Poetry does not require metaphor to exist, but metaphor is one of the ways that poetry can be a tool for healing, both for the poet, and...
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Buffy Aakaash
Dec 5, 20225 min read
Manifesting Your Pearls: Some tips for poetry publishing
Pearls of poetry reveal themselves through this impulse to say as much as possible in as few words as possible. And that in itself is...
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Buffy Aakaash
Oct 13, 20223 min read
Poetry Is Not Yet Dead
What is good poetry? Even more importantly, what is bad poetry? Because if there is good there is most certainly bad. And while I did not...
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Buffy Aakaash
Jun 30, 20224 min read
When Words Fail: Poetry during tragic times
Poetry can access places beyond words when all words fail. This is the great paradox of poetry: Poets arrange words in a particular way...
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Buffy Aakaash
Apr 24, 20223 min read
The Space that is God: Some thoughts on haiku
While I am in no way any sort of authority on haiku, this form has been on my mind lately, as something that greatly influenced my...
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Buffy Aakaash
Jan 29, 20226 min read
Wood and Its Metaphors
On the Origin of Barns Many of us walk a path of disconnection. What does it mean to walk disconnected? It means we have no real sense of...
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Buffy Aakaash
Jan 12, 20223 min read
Why People Love Mary Oliver: And how poetry gives meaning to life
Mary Oliver was not a great critical success , for reasons given from a sort of nationally institutionalized misogyny to her persistent...
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