When Poetry Defined Lives, Adam Kirsch’s Eulogy Helen Vendler died on the 23rd of April and Marjorie Perloff March 24th. The poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch took this as an opportunity to write a eulogy for the Atlantic entitled “When Poetry Could Define a Life” (available here without a paywall). Reading the article elicited contradictory emotions. The first was regretting every […] https://poemshape.wordpress.co....m/2024/05/09/when-po
