'Any free time should have been spent on publishable work that might improve my prospects. But I was exhausted that evening. I idly flipped through Auden, paused on the poem ‘Lullaby’, and picked up a dusty guitar with my other hand.'
New on our website: J.T. Welsch on setting poems to music.
Might the first-person critical-creative voice be a marker not of identification with one’s subject, nor of the collapsing of critical distance, but rather a different kind of creative act that afford...