Oludamini Ogunnaike

The traditional poet and poetry are “pontifical,” a brilliant bridge between heaven and earth, God and creation, ultimate and conventional reality, the universal and the particular, the objective and the subjective, while the secular or modern poet tends toward the “Promethean,” attempting to storm and eavesdrop at the gates of heaven.

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Originally published in Renovatio, The Journal of Zaytuna College. Republished here with thanks.