All historical events have an impact on the financial world. What Guernica did to the economy certainly had an impact on today's Great Recession.
HOW HAS THE GREAT RECESSION AFFECTED YOUR POETRY? / PLEASE SHARE A POEM(S) ADDRESSING YOUR EXPERIENCE:
Guernica
To back to 1937
when Picasso painted Guernica
is to go back in time,
but not in space,
not in touch,
not in sight,
not even in history.
Guernica is there.
It was and is,
and history is not over.
It is and begins.
Its waste lingers.
There are no outcasts in history.
We are all in its throes.
[First published in Colorado Review as well as in the poet's book, Light Light or the Curvature of the Earth (Marsh Hawk Press, New York).]
ABOUT THE POET:
Harriet Zinnes is Professor Emerita of English of Queens College of the City University of New York. Her many books include Whither Nonstopping (poems), Drawing on the Wall (poems), My, Haven’t the Flowers Been? (poems), Entropisms (prose poems), Lover (short stories), The Radiant Absurdity of Desire (short stories), Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts (criticism), and Blood and Feathers (translations of the French poetry of Jacques Prévert). She is contributing editor of The Hollins Critic and a contributing writer as art critic of The New York Arts Magazine.
'
No comments:
Post a Comment