Jennifer Chang Interviews Peter Gizzi
"All real art makes us reconsider tradition—not as a fixed canonical body that exists behind us or bears us up, but as something we move toward. We find it reading back through those very works that were ahead of their own time, even their authors—in the poems of Emily Dickinson or William Carlos Williams, Jack Spicer or Barbara Guest, for instance. If this model of discovery teaches us anything, it’s that tradition is, in fact, always just ahead of us, it is always an act of discovery, an occasion we rise to."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brandon Shimoda on Other Arts
"Dot and I were sleeping on the floor. Yumi was in the other room. It was raining and windy. We hung a furin, a Japanese wind bell, above our front porch, and it was ringing loudly, sweetly. It kept me awake, in a good way. I was content to just listen, then lines of poetry, unremarkable but quietly unrelenting, came to mind." |
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