Showing posts with label Hailey Leithauser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hailey Leithauser. Show all posts

Friday, May 10, 2013

Inspiration (Hailey Leithauser)

Today's poem is by Hailey Leithauser.

It's a word-filled, fun poem about the spark of inspiration. She must have had fun in writing this poem; many of the lines/images just seem to roll off the tongue or out of one's imagination.


It kind of reminds me of the poem Art by Herman Melville - in that it is quick in reading and fun with its words and that it is about creativity and the writing of poetry.

Favorite line: "Some flim-flam grand slam, glitchy / as religion, this is, with its chronic/ key-and-padlock"