“The
kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of
compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and,
you know, the inner experience becoming outer.”
– Brenda Hillman
Hillman has authored 9 poetry
collections including Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, for which she
received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award
for Poetry. Her 2009 book Practical
Water won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry, and Bright Existence was a finalist for the Pulitzer. 
A native
of Arizona who now makes her home in California, Hillman is known
for poems that draw on elements of found texts and document, personal
meditation, observation, and literary theory.
For Saturday’s Poem (from the
April 2016 Bookish article “15 Poems
That Could Change Your Life”) here is Hillman’s,
In The Trance
A pretty anarchist said to me
It’s not that a great love happens
What happened became your great love
Her echo had an ancient glo & so
Proved buoyant for my little craft
I left the world & felt a world
The bee loading its gloves with powder
The albatross wanting one thing from the sea
Nothing can wreck our boat said she
& when the water felt the glacier
The future held a present tense
The present held a future without cease
To see the entire article, go to: https://www.bookish.com/articles/15-poems-that-could-change-your-life/
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