Christian Wiman: If there's a poem that works for me, it's showing me something of reality. It's more than that, actually: it's enabling me to participatein reality again. John Berger has a wonderful essay about looking at the paintings of Van Gogh when he's in despair and saying that suddenly reality had been salvaged. That's the […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:31PM on March 27, 2019