Risk-Taker, Miracle-Maker

February 7, 2015

“Maybe the optimists are right; maybe poetry does help you live your life. And maybe they are more right than they know, and it rounds you out for death.” Andrew O’Hagan writes for The Guardian about falling in love with poetry and coming to see the poet as “a risk-taker, a miracle-maker, a moral panjandrum and a convict of the senses.”

is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York and every so often writes things at kaulielewis.wordpress.com.