What The Thunder Said by Jed Rasula biography RENDANG is a startling new

RENDANG is a startling new take on the self

These lines understand their power to manipulate: 'this is a poem about my mouth / intended to draw attention / to my mouth'

Poetry of darkness and deformation

the poems are equally about the way of the world and the losses that people sustain during the course of their lives – the disappearance of friends and family members

” She’s a poet who believes there’s a “green door / oasis in a burnt out mind” of this century

What The Thunder Said by Jed Rasula biography RENDANG is a startling newWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty four year old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. But, as Jed Rasula writes, The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern. In What the Thunder Said, Rasula tells the story