I love music as a technique and as a topic. Poetic meaning is incomplete without music and music is its own complete meaning. I wrote what looked like the first draft of "Jericho Hymnal" in early 2019. "The ruin has nothing to do with the ruin" is the only vestige from this draft. I don’t know exactly why the line came but it really helped me to closely follow the rhythm the poem insisted on.
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin on "Jericho Hymnal" |
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"Nathalie Handal on Nadia Tuéni"
"I knew that instant that a poem was the heart I wanted to live in. As I write about this memory now, and translate the poem, I realize in French se confondent can be confuse or fuse, merge. I imagine Tuéni was playing with this nuance—this moment of union so sensual, erotic, maybe timeless. And I am reminded how poetry always unites me to everything, and keeps surprising and transforming like great love should."
via THE POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dujie Tahat on Hoa Nguyen's A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
"Nguyen magnificently opens us up in an almost tessellation-like effect, zooming in in order to zoom out. In reading A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, I was often reminded of Denise Levertov’s 'Accuracy is always the gateway to mystery.' However, Nguyen provides—to this reader, at least—not just mystery, but a new orientation towards lyric." |
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