Beyond Grief and Grievance: The poetry of 9/11 and its aftermath: Philip Metres

In Philip Metres essay, Beyond Grief and Grievance: The poetry of 9/11 and its aftermath, published in poetryfoundation.org,he suggests through the excerpted vehicle of Ardorno's essay, "Commitment," that:

...by turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, it wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them…. The moral of this art, not to forget for a single instant, slithers into the abyss of its opposite. The aesthetic principle of stylization, and even the solemn prayer of the chorus, make an unthinkable fate appear to have had some meaning; it is transfigured, something of its horror removed. This alone does an injustice to the victims; yet no art which tried to evade them could confront the claims of justice.

And also, "...that we cannot be silent."

I've posted poems I felt captured the tone of the day and the 9/11 Decade. I don't intend to comment them. You may, if you'd like.

The majority of poems posted today are from poets.org, poetryfoundation.org, and from the text of Philip Metres essay. Read it!