"Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets' Brawl of '68"
"Sanders thought the fight was the inevitable product of its tumultuous time: 1968 incarnate. The battle made him think of a line from poet Charles Olson's protest chant: 'Blood is the Food of / Those Gone Mad / Blood is all over already the Nation / Plann'd in Creation.' The poets left campus the next morning. Harrison didn't participate in the fight, but he did recall tripping 'over a coupling couple in a midnight parking lot.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
J. Michael Martinez on Reading Prose
"I wanted to understand its syntactic logic of worlding, and, so, I mirrored Angello's process: in my work, I chose to meditate, word by word, on the chorus of Ritchie Valens' 'We Belong Together.' The prose poem sequence that emerged became a structuring force for the book as a whole; the sequence's prose ruminations on temporality, the body, and love, spread out across the book, acted as scaffolds to Tarta Americana's overarching themes." |
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