Look for poetic coincidences that could enrich your narration. This is one thing you learn once you interview enough people: how to wait. In his magnificent poem “A Brief for the Defense,” the poet Jack Gilbert writes: “If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction / we lessen the importance of their deprivation.” In the music video for “This is America,” Childish Gambino performs a skillful, alluring dance as dead bodies in the background are dragged off-screen.Īctually picking Leav’s brain leaves me with a suspicion: that she herself might be endeavoring, in her own way, to eventually take on the Frost dilemma.īut perhaps I should stop putting the end of the story where the beginning should be. And it is a question we keep trying to ask and answer.
Photo courtesy of NATIONAL BOOK STOREįrost’s masterpiece asks a formidable question for both his time and ours.
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