Stash Luczkiw continues with the pandemic meditations. 'You’d | Koine.Community

Stash Luczkiw continues with the pandemic meditations. "You’d think the Information Revolution would allow poetry to flourish. In many ways it certainly has. Increased access to text, spoken word and song has expanded the horizon of poetry beyond what most of us were taught about it.
Throughout the Covid lockdown, I’ve had the good fortune of isolating myself in a home with limited shelf space, but two massive tomes of what I consider, hands down, the most comprehensive English-language poetry anthology of the 20th century: Poems for the Millennium, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris. Nothing compares to it in terms of sheer breadth or visionary scope in exploring the possibilities of poetry and its potential as a force for liberation. On the first page of the introduction to the 800-page Volume One, Joris and Rothenberg make their intention clear: to trace the history of a single intuition – that poetry set free can free or open up the human mind. Or, in the negative terms formulated by William Blake, to undo the “poetry fetter’d” which “fetters the human race.” Please read Stash's column on Koine at https://bit.ly/3ek5i72