Ich Möchte Dir Eine Geschichte Erklären (I Wanna Tell You A Story) Comments

Amie, I am glad you are writing poems in German. The language lends itself to an altogether different kind of voice sounds and is probably better suited to what you want to say in this poem about yourself. Lucile Clifton 'believes that a poem is an act of remembering and that forgetting is a perilous activity in a culture that embraces an 'endless present'.' In poetry she hopes to conjure history and name her inheritance, which she says are beatuy, power, magic, and most importantly the oddness in us. She says she 'needs the sounds of the world going on around her, human nooise, to create that most human of activities - poetry'.