This poem is the start of an investigation, a tribute, and a haunting called "The Dorothy Loops," inspired by Dorothy Wordsworth's journals. Walking was an essential activity for Dorothy—and is for me. I was in Central Park in NYC on a sunny day when I had a vision of the whole scene coming apart and pulling back together again, and it felt like walking in two bodies at once.
Garth Graeper on "Dorothy," |
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"Ten Questions for Cintia Santana"
"As you might imagine, titling my collection The Disordered Alphabet was of no help. I knew there was an emotional arc to the process of grief, but I also knew it wasn't linear. I felt the first two sections needed to begin with the speaker's various losses and a subsequent grief that could not easily be named nor voiced. The third and last section revealed itself more slowly; poems that reflect a wider view of lived experience."
via POETS & WRITERS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Cindy Juyoung Ok on Other Arts
"'Home Ward (Seoul, Korea, 2012)' approximates the physical layout of a room. My memory of the real room, one of the last where my grandfather stayed, is marked by the concentration of patient beds in a rectangular space that, if empty, I would have considered a wide hallway." |
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