Rick Barot

Biography

Rick Barot’s second book of poems, Want, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books. His poems and essays have recently appeared in Agni, Gettysburg Review, and Post Road. He teaches at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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ESSAYS / Fall 2006

Rilke’s Blue Flower

By Rick Barot

If Rilke’s early books had been an apprenticeship in the mercurial ways of mood and inspiration, the New Poems signaled a deliberateness that had no need for inspiration to get its work done. The books’ titles tell the story: while New...