This poem comes from Bancquart’s 1988 collection Opéra des limites (Opera of Limits). It’s the final poem in the section entitled “Leçon des choses” or “Object Lessons,” and the poems in this section frequently enact a transformation from the human to the nonhuman—or in this case, to the more-than-human. In a brilliant anamorphosis (“I am still the master / of my anamorphoses”), Bancquart positions us so that we can see the entirety of deep time extending out from our human bodies.
Claire Eder on "In Reverse" |
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"Remica Bingham-Risher Wins Los Angeles Times Poetry Book Prize"
"Room Swept Home tells the stories of two women, her paternal great-great-great grandmother Minnie Lee Fowlkes who was enslaved, and her maternal grandmother, Mary Knight whose post-partum depression led to hospitalization at the Central Lunatic Asylum for the Negro Insane in Petersburg. That’s where the paths of the two women crossed in 1941. Neither knew that four decades in the future, their shared progeny would link them in a work of art that’s like a family heirloom."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Chloe Garcia Roberts on Language as Form
"I’ve always enjoyed the thought of writing as a force that could effect the inversion of that arrow, the timeline, with its incessant forward hurl. For this piece though, I wanted to attempt to use my subjective experience as a basis for objective conclusions. I dreamt about writing poems that were lightly disguised as a proofs. 'Temporal Saturation' is the first poem in Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology, and it is the template that I used for writing the rest of the book. The first part of the poem is analytic and the second lyric but neither section can exist without each other, they are one." |
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