This poem is a part of a new book of poems, "With My Back to the World," and it's a book of ekphrastic poems in correspondence with the artwork of Agnes Martin. The poems began with a commission from the MoMA Museum where I was asked to pick any piece in their collection and after searching for a while, I decided to select something from an artist I felt like I knew already.
Victoria Chang on "Happiness (from the Innocent Love Series), 1999" |
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"How Shelley Stands Tall as a Great Romantic Poet"
"As I was growing up, it was Keats' work that was the most compelling....with an aesthetic wish to capture and fix desire through art. But Shelley fascinates through his complexity—his reformist zeal is matched by a strong sense of personal gloom and pessimism, which he works through in his poetry, using nature as a counterpoint to his human suffering. If Keats was a first love, Shelley is a mature one."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Renee Gladman's Plans for Sentences
"The pathos in these lines might bring up different associations for different readers. For me, there's pathos somehow 'leaking' from these sentences, calling to mind the ways we build or fail to build communities, shelters, and habitable spaces. Taken together, the text and images here dream and draft and gesture toward future creations, lines of many kinds that will create, inhabit, and alter future spaces." |
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