ATTN: AMERICAN READERS
I was asked to start writing a monthly column on poetry for The American Reader , a new journal that’s not mussing around. The first piece is called “21 Guns,” and in it I say things like this:
I wonder if we haven’t, in the last fifteen years, begun the work of turning language into a ritual against loss. When we perform language—as we perform rituals as commonplace as brushing our teeth or looking at photographs of our loved ones—I wonder if we haven’t arrived at a point where language is only valuable to us insofar as it makes good on the tasks we expect it to perform. This is what ritual provides us, after all: a return on our investment.
See you once a month, America.
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