His poem, "Apology for Apostasy?", archived at the Poetry Foundation website, contrasts yesterday's poem, in which Rita Dove employed sun and moon imagery.
Knight's poem asserts, "The night is full / Of buggers and bastards; no moon or stars / Light the sky."
To confront the wrongs of its time, poetry cannot be "soft songs" or "candy," though the speaker does long for "peacetime, when my voice shall be light, / Like down," returning to its gentler nature.
—Gerald So
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