I wrote this poem after learning about the work of Taiwanese poet Chen Li, who uses the pictographic nuances of traditional Chinese characters to create visual poems—they are beautiful, tapestry-like. In writing, I attempted to answer the question: "How can I use the breadth of a character’s visual possibility to impart meaning, even to a non-Chinese-speaking audience?"
Emily Lee Luan on "Bitterness Is the Chinese Root of Emotional Hurt" |
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Bernadette Mayer: "Nothing Is a Memory"
"Mayer swings like a human wrecking ball at just about every literary truism, received binary, and easy contradiction that she encounters: the narrative stasis of memory; the supposed woo-woo laxity of automatic writing; the supposed conservatism of traditional prosody and form; the interwoven performances of motherhood, gender, sexuality, class, and art-making. She lays it all to waste."
via THE YALE REVIEW |
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