via Lit Hum
The Heart has narrow Banks
It measures like the Sea
In mighty—unremitting Bass
And Blue Monotony
Till Hurricane bisect
And as itself discerns
Its insufficient Area
The Heart convulsive learns
That Calm is but a Wall
Of unattempted Gauze
An instant’s Push demolishes
A Questioning—dissolves.
—Emily Dickinson
Today In History, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize. Brooks won the award for her book, Annie Allen, on this date May 1, 1950.
- CARTER Magazine
(Source: cartermagazine, via kimajones)
Tracy K. Smith and Dr. Manning Marable, 2012 Pulitzer winners
I haven’t read the new Malcolm X biography yet, but Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars is lovely and incorporates pop-cultural (and wider-cultural) references that will make some of my fannish superfriends happy. Even if you don’t normally gravitate to poetry, read it.
(Source: kimajones)
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R.I.P. Wislawa Szymborska
“She teaches us how the world defies and evades the names we give it.”—Edward Hirsch, The New York Times Magazine“[Szymborska] is unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She’s accessible and deeply human and a joy—though it is a dark kind of joy—to read… . She is a poet to live with.”—Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqgozVo9z1qdjavvo1_250.gif)
“She teaches us how the world defies and evades the names we give it.”—Edward Hirsch, The New York Times Magazine
“[Szymborska] is unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She’s accessible and deeply human and a joy—though it is a dark kind of joy—to read… . She is a poet to live with.”—Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World
