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