‘Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome’: the therapeutic role of poetry writing

Abstract

Take that old, material utensil, language, found all about you, blank with familiarity, smeared with daily use, and make it into something that means more than it says. What poetry is made of is so old, so familiar, that it’s easy to forget that it’s not just the words, but polyrhythmic sounds, speech in its first endeavours (every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome), prismatic meanings lit by each other’s light, stained by each other’s shadows.

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