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Before the Storm [1]

Poetry [2]
9.20.22

In her poem “The Quiet,” [3] which appears in a recent issue of the London Review of Books, Jorie Graham disrupts traditional expectations of a poem by aligning the text to the right of the page. Graham creates an atmosphere of tension by describing a metaphysical storm, and later in the poem, a literal one. She writes: “as wind comes up and we feel our soul turn frantic / in us, craning this way and that, yes the soul can twist, can winch itself into knots, / why not, there is light but no warmth.” This week, write a poem that creates visual tension by aligning the text to the right. Is there a storm in your life that could serve as inspiration?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/before_the_storm [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n18/jorie-graham/the-quiet