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A New State of Men

from Death Waits II: The Writers by Art Schop

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In an effort to explain his poetry as an escape from a terrible fear of silence that had always haunted him, Seamus Heaney looked to the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard: “What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak.” While Heaney was still a young man, away at college, a car hit his four-year old brother and killed him. Heaney addresses his sadness and sense of loss in the poems “Mid-Term Break” and “The Blackbird of Glanmore.” He believed that poetry should and can be transformative, that each writing can bring into existence a new state of man.

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The word came first, the tongue refused it; the pain of silence then unloosed it
the hiss of rain, the shovel’s dreary clip; a car pulled over in the nearest ditch
I write and pennies rattle in the cup; a word set up against its neighbor’s stub
the ashes bloom, the cattle calve the hill; that linen bloodied from the local mill
A new state of men, falls from his pen
Two clocks they tick, the one I sit and watch; the brass endeavor of the rise and drop
the glaze of time, the crack, the simple rush; no gaudy scars, his temple bears the poppy’s blush
A new state of men, falls from this pen
The blackbird patient waits so don’t you grieve
you’ll see him in the ivy when I leave
The word comes last, no tongue to speak it; all measure swept, all pain rescinded
her measling shins caressed with the goose’s quill; all white and thick beneath the cotton frill
for every year a foot for every year; the four foot box, a cot, it would appear

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from Death Waits II: The Writers, released March 12, 2019

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Contemporary rock that's "a mixture of Murder Ballads, Songs from a Room, and Hunky Dory."

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