"Poem of the Week: It Was As If a Ladder "
"The American poet, translator and essayist Jane Hirshfield engages with ecological crisis and its ramifications in this oblique and mysterious narrative....Like the ladder itself, the story and the very grammar it rests on are flimsily suspended. Gradually simple objects and clear sense impressions are translated into the surreality of nightmare."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Teare on "Star Thistle"
"What is a weed in one cultural context is medicine or food in another; what is invasive in one ecosystem is native to another; and plants, like matter, as William James would wisely say, have no ideals. What I brought to the Star Thistle was what Adam Phillips in his marvelous book Darwin’s Worms would call the problem of grieving in a secular age." |
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