A Poet Reflects

“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.  In that sense a metaphor is like a life jacket. And remember, there are life jackets that float and others that sink to the bottom like lead. Best not to forget it.”

—Roberto Bolaño, from 2666 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004)