The place for the poet

Our place in this world, our motion of understanding and belonging to a specific place that creates familiarity and home is innate to the human need. This place doesn't have to be physical but can also be reserved for a mental escape an elude of confinement. A place doesn't have to be shared it can be at the expense of the author alone in a world, alone in his car, alone in his room. The idea that a space can be anything you make it out to be makes the concept of space more independent while depending on your own interpretation of your surroundings.

For these poets the place can be a synonym that triggers a response of action, pain, belief, and or desire. They have dived into a pool of memories, desires, dreams and have enthusiastically shared them in their poetry.

In the poem An Instance of an Island by Patrick Rosal, he uses an Island as an idea of a type of place that can be easily erased or recreated entirely new. Rosal then furthers his poem by using uncommon moments of action that are taking place in this new creation. How can one replace something made by earth? Then after reading his poem over and over I understood it's not about replacing the island, it's about creating a new one and trying to hide that the old island never existed.

I like the stanza below because it is able to demonstrate how meaningful a place can be, many times it is too memorable to be erased, the only thing left is to recreate new memories in a better space.

One way to erase an island is to invent the waters

that surround it. You can name the waters

that will turn all the sounds the island makes into salt.

In this next poem called "Anamorphosis" written by Farid Matuk he uses his poetry and in one specific stanza he uses the idea of his mother to engage how space can either inhibit or prohibit conversation with your loved ones, even when the conversational tone can be tough. 

My mother has been allowed to grow old—
I visit
drive her
away from her TV
          so she can say things before she dies.

The idea of being able to formulate conversation based on where the person is located entitles the reader to understand how important space is to each individual. Each space is different and is able to bring into context our own values we find important.