Witness | Klay Dyer
Dyer holds a Ph.D. in English literature and has published extensively on fiction, poetry, film, and television. He is also a freelance university teacher, writer, and educational consultant. In this essay, he discusses Waldner’s “Witness” as a poem that rewards a reading that transcends traditional interpretations of metaphor.
Klay Dyer
Dyer holds a Ph.D. in English literature and has published extensively on fiction, poetry, film, and television. He is also a freelance university teacher, writer, and educational consultant. In this essay, he discusses Waldner’s “Witness” as a poem that rewards a reading that transcends traditional interpretations of metaphor.
Science tells readers that even the hardest, densest rock is made up mostly of empty space or, in a more abstract sense, of absence rather than presence. Such a radical subatomic reality cannot be perceived by...
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