Modern Poetry
After the Pulitzer, Seuss turns on her own form and asks what poetry is actually for, unsentimental about the consolations verse is supposed to provide.
Seuss follows the Pulitzer-winning frank: sonnets with poems that interrogate what poetry is for, written from a working-class Michigan childhood and an adulthood spent teaching the form. Formally restless and unsentimental about the consolations verse is supposed to offer. The title is a challenge rather than a label: she is asking whether the modern lyric can still carry a life like hers.
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Maria Popova
That is what Diane Seuss offers in her splendid poem “Weeds,” found in her altogether vivifying collection Modern Poetry (public library).
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