Rolfe Jacobson: The age of the great symphonies is over now.
And today I felt the loss of poets—Kizer, Kinnell, Strand…
I thought of how, one night, years ago, I was running with my guide dog, late for the opera, came hurtling toward the doors of the Metropolitan, and though they were already closed,
an usher, wearing a long cape, saw us, and swung the door wide and we were admitted to the music. May the poets be admitted to the great symphonies.
Planet of the Blind 