"The poem takes its name from and is an ekphrastic of an exhibition of Martin Wong’s paintings. I found an affinity with this work both because it serves as a visual archive of the Lower East Side of New York, a place that helped me come of age as an artist, and because there is a focused interest on how people of color create community in foundering urban spaces."
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Does Every Country Need Its Own Sylvia Plath?
"Every era has its own Sylvia Plath, its own version of a poet whose archetypes are by now so familiar, so rote, as to be at first glance banal: teenage goth girl queen, dutiful daughter, straight-A student, disgruntled housewife, feminist trailblazer, genius in her own right. And so too, it appears, does every country."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Amaud Jamaul Johnson on “Possum Dead”
"I’m not that old, but I’ve lived long enough to know that the lion’s share of my life is behind me. I know there are relationships I can’t hold on to, and places I can’t return to. I’m just beginning to see 'real time,' the arc of almost half a century, and how the generational waves, both violent and beautiful, define our species." |
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