Familiar figures of speech such as “keep it together” lead me to believe I’m not the only person who often feels more fragmented than intact, more splintered than whole. I have no remedy, but to any reader who knows the feeling may this poem offer company.
H. L. Hix on "Always and only from material." |
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From Pulp to Poetry
"The books were going to be pulped so I thought why not make them into something beautiful and people can enjoy it?" Participants at the workshop use vintage recipe cards and books to make poetry, by cutting out the words or blocking them out on the page to create new sentences."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Language as Form
“In ‘Some Things I Said,’ David Ferry turns to his own work, his single-authored poems and translations, and draws forth a new poem in a new form, an elemental assemblage of fragments, lines sometimes presented almost exactly as they were in the source poem and other times altered.” |
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