Meaning a Life

Thanks for the read. Life is more weatherable as an us, not a "me," and poems can be this direct live wire to transmit that reminder, not in interrogatives or commands, but in suggestions, gradual, increasing, until magically moving one's emotional compass to the point where there can be no doubt except that the feeling this art object elicited in you is The Truth. For this one, the Truth is that Us is greater than Me.

“[Oppen] was wary of the idea that every aspect of a life should conform to a coherent political-aesthetic vision or ideology, a form of didacticism that has long been a strong undercurrent in American culture.”