"Guardian of time" is the tenth of twenty cantos in "COLD FIRE," an epic and lyrical poem of poignant urgency, a meditation on the quality and consequences of human interference in the natural world of Patagonia. The wind, with its omnipresent voice and versatile metaphoric essence, is an agent of destruction but also of possible resurrection and redemption. An intimate and irreducible exploration of our vulnerability, solitude, plunder, and death.
Katherine Silver on "Guardian of time" |
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"Short Conversations with Poets: Roger Reeves"
"I’m interested in forms, notions of composition, that weave together diverse and diffuse traditions and materials. I’m composed of so many different sounds, traditions of music, and spirituality; composed of various notions of what it means to be present and alive—and I always hope to sit with these sources in some sort of conversation, not an argument. I’m interested in speaking from, writing with the many tongues in my head."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Karen Leona Anderson on "Rat"
"To write vermin is to ask then who makes them faceless and liquid, seething, scheming, malicious, too much, over and over; who feeds them and then turns away, repulsed. (Was it me? Of course.) It’s to ask who is at home, inside; who is outside. Why vermin are women’s fault and their shadow, their shame and their labor, how making vermin is so much work to do and undo and who that work is for." |
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Write with Poetry Daily
This April, to celebrate National Poetry Month, we'll share popular writing prompts from our "What Sparks Poetry" essay series each morning. Write along with us!
Consider what silences your writing and write to it. Address it directly. Allison Cobb |
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