Curse 11 - Frank Bidart
KORTE INHOUD
A Sept. 11 Empathy Curse (Los Angeles Times)
(Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, is poetry editor of the online magazine Slate.)
I have read many poems responding to the Sept. 11 attacks. Most of them seem rooted not in a response to the event itself but in the poet’s sense of what one should feel or say about such an event: something large-minded, or patriotic, or loyal, or insightful, or moral.
Contrary to that procedure, the art I admire most begins with some real experience. Frank Bidart’s poem “Curse,” in a way shockingly, comes from the poet’s actual response to a terrible and terrifying reality.
The poem is just what its title says it is: a curse on the perpetrators.
As in the traditional Christian idea of a curse, as I understand it, the curse attains and asserts a moral balance or standard. I particularly admire the memorable phrase “a bubble of rectitude” for the ecstasy of self-righteousness that let the terrorists kill thousands of innocent people. In keeping with the Thomist or ...
(Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, is poetry editor of the online magazine Slate.)
I have read many poems responding to the Sept. 11 attacks. Most of them seem rooted not in a response to the event itself but in the poet’s sense of what one should feel or say about such an event: something large-minded, or patriotic, or loyal, or insightful, or moral.
Contrary to that procedure, the art I admire most begins with some real experience. Frank Bidart’s poem “Curse,” in a way shockingly, comes from the poet’s actual response to a terrible and terrifying reality.
The poem is just what its title says it is: a curse on the perpetrators.
As in the traditional Christian idea of a curse, as I understand it, the curse attains and asserts a moral balance or standard. I particularly admire the memorable phrase “a bubble of rectitude” for the ecstasy of self-righteousness that let the terrorists kill thousands of innocent people. In keeping with the Thomist or ...
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Frank Bidart: Curse 11. De Carbolineum Pers, 2001, Vouwblad. 100 genummerde exx., nummer 18. Perfecte staat.
