| The “orange sphere” refers to Jesús Rafael Soto's towering kinetic sculpture composed of 1800 aluminum rods suspended from a 39-foot gantry. Installed in 1997 on a hill in Caracas, Venezuela, it immediately became a cultural icon. Wrecked during a time of economic distress and social upheaval, its parts were strewn or buried in the dirt. It has since been reconstructed and installed in a more prominent location. Marguerite Feitlowitz on "86" |
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In Conversation with Luisa Muradyan
“I told myself that after my first book, I would stop writing so much about Ukraine and my family but as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that I will spend the rest of my life writing about them. Somewhere at the bottom of these piles of poems is the overwhelmed little girl sitting in that minivan, I’m not necessarily trying to find her, I’m trying to pull her through the world.
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What Sparks Poetry:
Vincent Toro on Language as Form
"Form is not merely shape, it’s concept. It’s not merely a concept, it is a vessel for culture that transmits the values and ways of a people....When our own forms are marginalized or entirely ignored while an oppressor culture forcefully imposes their own forms on us, some of us are going to act reflexively to such an action, and some of us are going to make it a mission to reclaim our own forms and create space for them to be appreciated and respected in equal proportion. This is, in part, the reason for my devotion to the décima." |
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