Poets are not tame. The good ones are writers who push, and probe, and say "Look! See what's in front of your eyes." Those poets don't try to make things pure and pretty. They want us to see what is.
That's what the poet Jorie Graham tackles, all that is. She looks at the universe, and at life on earth, and the possibility that it's all, that we're all hurtling toward extinction. So she stops. And she makes us look more closely at the crab-tracks, at the algebraic rivulets of sand, and the experience of feeling all that is, in and underneath every moment of life.
Jorie Graham, once dubbed by the The New Yorker as "the closest thing American poetry has to a rock star."
