Nick Piombino, on poetry and “biography”:
We don’t just read, we feel, we empathize, we have antipathies,
we react, we identify. Writing and reading poetry, or any literature,
or significantly experiencing any work of art, is also partly
an adventure in personal insight and transformation. It is utterly
“personal”, even when contemporary life at the moment is less and less so.
Poetry and poets and all artists struggle to enliven the personal,
individual aspect of living.
Otohime 