Zakia Carpenter-Hall
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More Memorable than Sweetness: on Li-Young Lee’s poem ‘Always a Rose’
Zakia Carpenter-Hall A poet must perpetually ask the question, explicitly or implicitly, ‘What is it?’ What are the plants, animals, objects, etc. with which we share and compose our lives? Like the unnamed child in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass who asked, ‘What is the grass?’ demonstrating that the simplest question can…
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‘Big Talk’: a poem by Zakia Carpenter-Hall
Big Talk ‘when the mystics speak of worlds beyond scent and colour, the common man… cannot grasp their reality.’ ~ Rumi Cosmologists say, ‘if the sun was a door, the earth would be the size of a dime’. And I try to envision the vastness that I love — a…