DeWitt Henry



‘The poem in progress is molten, malleable’: Cassandra Atherton in Conversation with DeWitt Henry

I met DeWitt Henry on an online poetry reading series, LitBalm. I’d read his book Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays (2018), and I knew he had founded the famous literary journal Ploughshares, and was an emeritus professor at Emerson College.

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On Falling

Leaves fall, blazing. Fortune’s wheel; zeniths and nadirs. De Casibus. Downfall. Comedown. Lucifer’s fall, wings clipped. “Hurled headlong flaming from the Ethereal Sky,” sings Milton. Fall of man; original lapse. Down the rabbit hole, Alice. Horatio’s vertigo on tower’s edge: …

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Corpus

A life’s work left behind; remains preserved (even if in progress), to be considered as a whole. Usually already public, but sometimes not. Legacy, canon, ouvre, as brief as single book, or daunting as many. Not to be confused with …

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