In her entry in “Endless Structures” in Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns, Rachel Zucker refers to three poems that turn to sudden revelation near their conclusion. Here are links to those poems:
“Archaic Torso of Apollo,” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Here is Mark Doty on Rilke’s great poem.
“Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota,” by James Wright
Other poems that feature a sudden, final revelation include:
“Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh,” by Thomas James
“The Impossible,” by Bruce Weigl
“Body as Argument,” by Jillian Weise (in The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (Soft Skull, 2007), p. 81).
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Terrance Hayes’s “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” (“Rilke ends his sonnet ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’ saying”) offers an intriguing take on–and perhaps critique of–the epiphanic turn.
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