This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Cal Poly chapter.
Photographic Credit: Nesrine Majzoub
“My poetry professor gave this to me last year. Selected Poems of Michael Hannon.”
“What’s your favorite line?”
“My favorite line…let’s see…he’s not Catholic poet or anything but he‘s got this whole ‘Stations of the Cross’ thing, and so he has this one section called ‘Christ Nailed to the Cross’ and my favorite line here is:
‘Clarity
Heaven and Earth reduced to nerves
Shuttering in an ecstasy of blank verse
His body bent to his one pure poem.’
I like it for the way it sounds when it rolls out. ‘the ecstasy of blank verse’…just like the emptiness of that moment where the earth and the heavens are nailed together and dying.”
-Bihn Robles