{"id":4548,"date":"2012-10-12T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2012-10-12T13:50:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T17:50:02","slug":"poetry-time-or-when-names-are-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2012\/10\/poetry-time-or-when-names-are-poetry.html","title":{"rendered":"poetry time, or, when names are poetry ~"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201c\u2026in Micmac <\/a>\u2026 some trees \u2018are named for the sound the wind makes when it blows through them during the autumn, about an hour after sunset when the wind always comes from a certain direction. Moreover, these names are not fixed but change as the sound changes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 ~ as qtd. in Elizabeth Seay, Searching for Lost City<\/em>, xii.<\/p>\n

An exercise I do frequently in writing classes — poetry & othewise — is to ask students to make a list of names: of tools (dibble, trowel, router, awl<\/em>), of moths (hawk moth, luna moth, emperor gum moth<\/em>), of twilight (civil, nautical, astronomical<\/em>).<\/em> Because names often hold within them poetry. More than a mere seed, the name itself becomes an image:\u00a0civil twilight holds an entire world within its 13 letters…<\/p>\n

I once heard Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky tell of researching the names for the various parts of a man’s shirt, spending hours — if not days — on the task. So charmed was he with the precision, the world of tailoring and new knowledge, the words invoked.<\/p>\n

Today? I’m looking for names w\/ power. Names that hold poetry within the cool confines of another discipline. Another world…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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