The Inexplicable Rightness of Good Poetry

How does Rae Armantrout write so eloquently without (exactly) making sense?

Sky
           god
                      girl.

Pick out the one
that doesn’t belong.

From a longer poem called Advent, in this month's Poetry.

All great art has a mysteriousness, an inexplicable rightness, at which we can only marvel…

Published by Kit Stolz

I'm a freelance reporter and writer based in Ventura County.

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