NEW LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET

In these intimate pages, award-winning Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a passionate defense of poetry and of the intelligible poem the well-made text that can provide refuge, wisdom, and consolation. Inspired by Rilke's classic Letters to a Young Poet, this slen der volume explores poetry as vocation, obsession, and partnership between writer and reader, a road toward inner growth. For Margar it, poetry promises a clarity that allows us mysteriously to live without the need to forget. This is essential reading for poets yo ung and o...[Read more]