When writing "Department of Elegy" I found myself in the role of ambassador for the 1990s. For this poem I grabbed an assortment of details and observations and attempted to do justice to the decade. The title, of course, is a nod to the song “Teen Age Riot" by Sonic Youth. Thinking about the moon still makes me a little nauseous.
Mary Biddinger on "Heaven and Its Teenage Riot" |
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"Poem That Never Ends"
"Poem That Never Ends balances polarities such as absence and presence, revelation and discretion, and intimacy and distance. A visual motif of dashes operates in paradox, by turns representing stitches (a coming together) and perforation (a tearing apart). One poem written in Spanish is offered to the mother within the book, yet the rest is in English, at a cool remove."
via HARVARD REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Layla Benitez-James on Two Poems by Beatriz Miralles de Imperial
"Bea has been described as 'a poet of silence, of everything unsaid which is suggested through language,' and translating these poems opened my eyes to the immense possibilities of brevity, inspiring me to begin a book-length project in small bursts. How Dark My Skin Is Left by Her Shadow taught me the strength of distillation, how intensity rises, and pressure builds when a substance is compressed." |
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