Wednesday, March 26, 2003
“The religion of the poems is aesthetic; they worship in the church of Hart Crane and Proust - may I add Chanel? But their mission is ethical as well, since they are after redemption. What, in our harrowed and harrowing cities, can be held up as lovely, genuine, human?
One response to horror is silence. Another is to make what one can, to create with all the more ardor and fury.”
- the poet Mark Doty writing about the poet Lynda Hull
Here’s to a woman who creates with such ardor and fury and love. Here’s to someone who pours herself into words and art, who shares her grace and humor, her terror and her ecstasy, with all of us lucky bastards. Happy Birthday, Jennie. I can’t wait to meet you!
