Conversation with Dara Barrois/Dixon
"I do tend to believe every poem hopes to seem to be the inevitable manifestation of one way of experiencing something—at the same time I believe it’s not that we’re fooling ourselves, it’s that we’re imagining how lives can be exponentially extended vertically, as well as horizontally. Every art includes in its spirit and at heart this potential."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lloyd Wallace on Language as Form
"As the poet attempts to bring their past into the present, into the poetic medium, attempting to make it a keepable artifact, we can see it being buried by the world, by outer artifice, just as the past is buried by the present. The key pathos—the beauty—of this poem is that as we see the poet speaking, we also see them disappear. So, to amend a previous statement: yes, the poem is full of evidence that the poet has lived. But it’s also evidence that she is disappearing, too." |
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