Every poem has the right to ask for a new poetics.
—Anna Swir, Talking to My Body (Copper Canyon Press, 1996), translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
lowly potato
If you can get to its essence, even a lowly potato would be poetic.
—Jayanta Mahapatra, “Of the Lowly Potato: Indian English Poetry Today” (2001)
—Jayanta Mahapatra, “Of the Lowly Potato: Indian English Poetry Today” (2001)
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