In this latest episode, we talk with the 2024 Frost Farm Poetry Prize winner, Sarah Ashbach. From poetry’s religious enchantment and the gnostic, occult elements in modern verse to teaching poetry to high school students, join us for an enchanting journey with the young and talented Mrs. Ashbach.
Read Sarah’s poem “In the Time of the Latter Rain” below.
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Yeats and the Occult
Modernism often produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. Without a fundamental truth to reveal, poetry is relegated to presenting a series of images for the reader to supply the meaning of the text. Hart Crane and the pioneers of modernist poetry achieved this with words alone, but later Cummings and the “concrete” poets, heavily under the influence of cubism and modernist movements in visual art, did so through typographical forms of the poem itself.
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