There are conditions that determine what this I can say or do.
Poetry, it’s true, begins from the self. but can’t assume that what it speaks for comes from nothing else. Beyond it lie the voices it subsumes, the history it’s rooted in.
Take Mandelstam, speaking for the dispossessed.
He as you and we and us, the I that isn’t them, makes moves against the enemy within.
You see how vulnerable this floating I can be, attempting its autonomy as if it had the power to stand alone against the forces of the universe.’ Christopher Hampton Hard dark green binders for the magazine with SoF logo in gold on the spine are now available again.