New Journalism 2014
16/06/2008
“ A poetry of place is a poetry which values locales, which sees and lets the reader experience what makes a place unique among places. Much contemporary poetry focuses on psychological states, feelings, intellectual concepts, or language play totally devoid of reference to the real, lived, sensually experienced and infinitely varied physical world. Poetry of place may focus on such interior subjects, but it lets us experience them more profoundly and more authentically because theyíre rooted in a specific time and place. „
If we are tilting the curriculum toward place-based educaation, would’t we spend some time reading and writing poetry that seeks to value locales?
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