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Poem of the Week: “Leaf-Eater” by Thomas Kinsella
Though the titular kenning seems to promise a grand or heroic subject, Thomas Kinsella’s “Leaf-Eater” instead examines the inhabitant of a single leaf in the heart of a garden. Readers’ attention is directed to the minute form of a hungry grub, caught lucklessly searching around itself in “blind space” until it is compelled to “eat…
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “The Design” by Thomas Kinsella
Goodness is required.
It is part of the design.
Badness is understood.
It is a lapse, and part of the design.