The World Waiting To Be: Poems About The Creative Process

Poetry. "Whitman says that 'a great poem is no finish... but rather a beginning,' and Brodsky sings this electrically in his latest book. Words are fertilization and birth; they speak being and become flesh. Creativity springs from the abyss to forever avoid the void. Blues hum and euphoria booms in the mini-creator poet who agonizes or wonders in 'that evanescent just before' and finally writes life into the 'grave' of the empty page, shouts into its 'white silence.' Through words about words and metaphorized metaphors, THE WORLD WAITING TO BE is both lamentation and love song to creative inspiration and the intersection of time and eternity in the scribbling act. Brodsky pep-talks his pen into tumescent potency 'Until all empty space/Is finally filled with its sprawling existence...'"--David Herrle.