Friday, 13 July 2018

Poetry Friday: “Some Small Bone”

One of a writer’s greatest challenges is to create a short piece that is in no other way “small.”  In 14 brief lines, Hailey Leithauser has succeeded in writing a poem that is simultaneously compact and expansive.   Prefacing it with Robert Bly’s line, “Some small bone in your foot is longing for heaven,” Leithauser’s […]

from
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2018/07/poetry-friday-some-small-bone/

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