A gift, a spiritual kinship
Try this YouTube video of a poem by James Wright. Unbeknownst to him, Wright is linked, spiritually at least, to West Virginia poet Doug Van Gundy who will read three of his own poems on this blog as soon as I can get the recording ready. Van Gundy’s first book, “A Life Above Water,” came out this year, and in our conversation he talked of his poetic kinship to Wright. The thumbnail photo of Wright shown here is what he looked like in 1960.
You know, poetry has been called wasted breath, but it is a gift, and it’s beautiful and amazing what people will do to pass it on over lifetimes and into other lifetimes. A gift.
