"An Interview with Forrest Gander"
"If a single through line can be said to anchor a body of work as varied and prolific as Gander’s poetry and translations, it is this: the ethos of una-saka, of going beyond the vanishing point, taking his readership with him across the boundary, down the slope, and into the ambiguity of the space beyond, to the other shore, to parts and voices unknown."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Shara Lessley on Stanley Plumly's "Dutch Elm"
"As a poet, Plumly might be described as an elegist deeply attuned to the natural world. Formally varied, his work is both tender and apprehensive. Often drawing on memory, it attends to matters of isolation, strange beauty, resilience, and loss. 'Dutch Elm,' the opening poem in Plumly’s 2017 collection, Against Sunset, operates very much within this mode. It is in many ways a procession of grief, a sonnet haunted by longing." |
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