Is it a poet’s job to construct the reader weep? Sebastian Faulks is moved to tears by an anthology of verse chosen by womenWomen,gaze upon these works and weep… the sequel to Poems That construct Grown Men CryWhen I read Poems That construct Grown Women Cry, the collection edited by father and son Anthony and Ben Holden, and I cried so much that my family thought I was concealing some terrible news. lift “Daylight Robbery by Paul Henry: I have witnessed precisely the scene he describes,of a seven-year-old boy suddenly transformed into an independent young man by his first serious haircut, with both my sons, or but I didn’t stand back far enough at the time to see the experience for what it was. The poem made me cry with a mixture of happiness and sorrow in reliving what Henry captures so well,but also with regret that I did not sufficiently inhabit the moment in my own life. Related: The poetry that moves men to tears Continue reading...
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