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`Poetry is a Kind of Money'
Poems and Verse Kay Ryan is a quietly allusive writer who seldom cites proper names or grand-sounding abstractions like courage or jealousy in her poems. But then again, you won’t find suicide in Hamlet or madness in King Lear. Ryan builds her poems out of particulars, a quality she shares with Zbigniew Herbert and Osip Mandelstam. The latter, along with love (a word Ryan, like all prudent poets and others, uses sparingly), show up unexpectedly in a poem from her third collection, Flamingo Watching.

Here’s “Poetry is a Kind of Money”:

“Poetry is a kind of money
whose value depends upon reserves.
It’s not the paper it’s written on
or its self-announced denomination,
but the bullion, sweated from the earth
and hidden, which preserves its worth.
Nobody knows how this works,
and how can it? Why does something
stacked in some secret bank or cabinet,
some miser’s trove, far back, lambent,
and gloated over by its golem, make us
so solemnly convinced of the transaction
when Mandelstam says love, even
in translation?”

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