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"Some Remote and Quiet Stair"
Carol Rumens discusses the work of Charlotte Mew; in particular, the poem "Not for That City, Mew's low-key riposte to religion's grandiose visions of the afterlife. "Formally, Mew often experimented with long, prose-like lines, and varieties of indentation, bringing a prose writer’s sense of larger rhythmic possibilities into the poem as dramatic lyric."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Tracy Zeman on Susan Howe's "The Nonconformist's Memorial"
“Howe’s techniques create an altered world that a reader can step into and attempt to decipher. In the act of reading, we enter into the act of making. I loved the mystery in that process and the reader-work involved as we participate in the unraveling of established histories and the un-silencing that results....She both implicates the existing narrative and reconfigures it to create space for others." |
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