An Invisible World: Tomas Tranströmer’s The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems (Expanded Edition)
The poem, [Tranströmer] seems to say, doesn’t have to carry every burden of its poet’s heart. It doesn’t need to speak out loud, either.
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Rachel Mans McKenny is a Midwestern writer. She was a 2006 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and her work has appeared in The Knee-Jerk Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and US Catholic, as well as other publications.
Pressing Back against the Pressure: A Woman of Property by Robyn Schiff
It’s about pressure. The pressure of one being enveloping another being, of one mother hugging her child, of a greater force subsuming and defining a lesser.