"A Conversation with Claire Schwartz"
"I tend to think of a lecture as a didactic presentation issued by someone in a position of authority, but its root—to read—jostles inside of it. The writer and the reader collude to make meaning—or they struggle toward it, split it open, revise the terms of what might be possible. Throughout Civil Service there are various “lecture” poems that open up concepts whose meanings bind social formations—time, the house, loneliness, etc."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Robin Myers on Javier Peñalosa M.'s "The Crane"
"I’d describe 'The Crane' as a deceptively narrative poem, in the way that a dream can present what feels like a coherent story you’ll then struggle to recapitulate once you’re conscious again. The story, as it were, is more like a snapshot remembered: the speaker finds an injured crane in a boat by a riverbank and uses an oar to put the bird out of its misery, an act that fills him both with shame and with a feeling of identification he can’t quite describe." |
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