The Poem Is You Quotes

“FRANK BIDART Song of the Mortar and Pestle The desire to approach obliteration preexists each metaphysic justifying it. Watch him fucked want to get fucked hard. Christianity allowed the flagellants light, for even Jesus found release from flesh requires mortification of the flesh. From the ends of the earth the song is, Grind me into dust.”
― Stephen Burt, The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them