The Cutting Room
Adam CairnsHow poems fail, named and dissected.
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Two lines reached for tears. The cancer was one line below.
The poem opens by reaching for the feeling — for grief, for tears, for the weight of it — when the thing itself, the cancer, is sitting one line below, ready to do all of that work on its own if I had only let it.
The fragment
T...
One noun too many, and the rest of the poem stays in the drawer
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Two lines in, there is a noun I should never have written down — the word that names the thing the poem was about to show me — and because it is there, the other lines have stayed in the drawer....
The comfort arrived before the grief did
Lang Bua cave - Flores, Indonesia
By the second stanza the poem is already consoling me, and the loss it means to console has not yet landed — I have offered the reader comfort for a grief the draft never made them feel. I mourned a...
The hand was on cold rock — then the speaker stepped out of the weather to explain
The poem has its hand on cold rock — wet, particular, present — and then, a line later, the speaker climbs down off the rock face to report a thing he says he has always known; the looking stops, the contemplation begins, and the poem leave...
My two weakest lines, at the two places the form shows them most
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Last week I cut one line that carried three failures; this week the poem fails in only one way — but I committed it twice, and set both instances at the two seams of the form where a reader looks hardest: th...
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I write The Cutting Room (craft and diagnosis for poets) and Beyond Solitude (personal essays and poetry). Chair Ledbury Poetry.
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