Shane McCrae: "Imagining a Multiverse"
In the New Yorker poetry podcast, Shane McCrae talks to Kevin Young about his poetry sequence, "Jim Limber in Heaven." "The main fact about the book is that each Jim Limber is a different Jim Limber because it's a heaven that is part of a multiverse. And so....it's a multi heaven. There's a lot of different heavens. And so each speaker, each Jim Limber is slightly different."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Vahni Capildeo on Martin Carter’s “This Is the Dark Time My Love”
“When did you—when does anyone—start writing poetry; or, when would you call the things, the scribbles, the utterances that you make or break, 'poetry?' When they are very young, a lot of people make up rhymes, or become attached to reciting mundane or magical-seeming phrases. Children may take pleasure in exclamations, swear words, and other fragments collaged from the grown-up world of overheard speech. If those contain the early sparks of poetry, for many Caribbean readers Martin Carter is a contributor to the flame." |
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