Comments on: Litany for Silence http://www.splintergeneration.com/litany-for-silence/ Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Current Student News – December 2011 | Bartleby: The UC Riverside MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts News Blog http://www.splintergeneration.com/litany-for-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-6411 Current Student News – December 2011 | Bartleby: The UC Riverside MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts News Blog Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:08:55 +0000 http://www.splintergeneration.com/?p=2568#comment-6411 [...] Litany for Silence was published in Splinter Generation. [...] [...] Litany for Silence was published in Splinter Generation. [...]

]]> By: Summer Slouch AKA I don’t want this blog to die… | Rachelle Cruz http://www.splintergeneration.com/litany-for-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-4413 Summer Slouch AKA I don’t want this blog to die… | Rachelle Cruz Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:09:40 +0000 http://www.splintergeneration.com/?p=2568#comment-4413 [...] and p.s. I have a poem, “Litany for Silence,” on the Splinter Generation website.  If you wish, please [...] [...] and p.s. I have a poem, “Litany for Silence,” on the Splinter Generation website.  If you wish, please [...]

]]> By: Scott http://www.splintergeneration.com/litany-for-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-4224 Scott Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:21:15 +0000 http://www.splintergeneration.com/?p=2568#comment-4224 This is a stunning beautiful poem to me. The imagery provides the action as the refrain takes on a musical element (not to go too arcane here, but I almost hear strophe/antistrophe in my head reading it). A teacher of mine had a rule not to use certain words in a poem - words like "heart", "love" -- and "silence". This poem proves the old adage that rules were made to be broken - as long as you can break them well! This is a stunning beautiful poem to me. The imagery provides the action as the refrain takes on a musical element (not to go too arcane here, but I almost hear strophe/antistrophe in my head reading it).

A teacher of mine had a rule not to use certain words in a poem - words like “heart”, “love” — and “silence”. This poem proves the old adage that rules were made to be broken - as long as you can break them well!

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