An Interview with Lisa Hiton
"Lyric poems, like film, are time-bound. Where one has a first frame and a last, the other has an opening line and a final line. One cuts to black. One cuts to white. To be a master of time: That is what film and Modernism have taught me. Consciousness and imagination are infinite, but our only time is not. The tension between those two modes fuels me and pulls my artistic compass in wild directions, no matter the project."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Alyse Knorr On John Keats' "Bright Star""I loved picturing the star in the poem watching the waves clean the shores and the snow graze the mountaintops. I loved how the first half of the poem painted a picture by negation, like a puzzle, and how it wrenched me from the cold, lonely reaches of outer space down to the grounded, intimate moment of laying one's head on a lover's breast and hearing the quiet of her breathing: all made equally sacred in the poem's grand equation." |
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