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By Sarah White
Why do we write poetry?
Many poets come to the podium accompanied
by
raisons d’être for particular poems.
Can we believe what they say, or
do they simply seek to enhance the poem by
preceding it with a piquant
explanation?
In medieval troubadour literature such
explanations, or
“reasons,” often claimed that certain kinds of
poems could be explained
by certain kinds of love—especially a difficult
“far love,” amor de
lonh.
Musing on her reasons for writing, White
elaborates the impact
of far love on her own vocation, life, and
poetry.
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William Rector,
Advisory Editor
Sarah White's poems are collected in
Cleopatra Haunts the Hudson
(Spuyten
Duyvil, 2007) and
Mrs.
Bliss and the Paper Spouses (Pudding
House, 2007).
She collaborated on an
edition/translation, Songs of the Women
Troubadours (Garland, 2000).
She lives in Manhattan .
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