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Charles Altieri: On "The Room"

And even death itself not only calls us to the void but gives us a vantage point from which to view and sing of the processes which worship it. . . .

The bird sings both to and against death, and in his singing of his own mortality he gives us a model for a form of immortality once again within process.

Publication Status: 
Excerpted Criticism [1]
Publication: 
- Private group -
Criticism Target: 
W. S. Merwin [2]
Author: 
Cary Nelson [3]
Ed Folsom [4]
Poem: 
The Room [5]

Source URL: https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/criticism/charles-altieri-room

Links
[1] https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/category/publication-status/excerpted-criticism
[2] https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poet/w-s-merwin
[3] https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/creator/cary-nelson
[4] https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/creator/ed-folsom
[5] https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poem/room