If I Have a Wish, It is to Find You
Posted on 13 February 2010
Joanna Klink is the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University, and is the author of They Are Sleeping (2000), and Circadian (2007). Her latest collection is called Raptus (Penguin 2010). Read Joanna’s description of writing the poem “Aerial” from Raptus, at the Poetry Society of America, here:
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/own_words/page_6/
More about Joanna, including the texts of the poems we talked about, coming up: in the meantime, please listen to the podcast here:
3 responses to If I Have a Wish, It is to Find You
Joanna Klink, despite the sophistication of her language, brings a wide-eyed innocence to her poetry. She reminds me of some wandering Zen monk, letting go of all the layers “about” the world, mastering the amazingly difficult discipline of simply being with the world, and then, in the act of recording it, transforming it into its higher octave. One shudders, as if stepping out naked, into an early morning.
Dear Sharon,
I met your mother, Mrs. Gates, this summer in Fitchburg, while giving some time to a poetry class for young children. She suggested I contact you to be on your podcast. I read, write and occasionally teach poetry and I’d very much like to be on your production, especially having seen and heard Joanna Klink.
Joanna seems ephemeral and very much a poet.
Yours, MaryEllen Letarte
Lovely!