But poetry can change a life, too. If I ever did teach a poetry class, I would point out that poetry isn’t too difficult; it is simply a vast and overlooked country. If you want to understand it, you need to stay a while, explore, and visit regularly. I guess I would like to be what Peter Breznik might call a poetry cartographer. Not on a very large scale—just often enough to point a handful of students to words that might guide them through a day. Or a lifetime.
