"Jetty" began during a time when the death of friends and family members had pulled me into depression; a recursive, obsessive mood. Though much of the sestina structure seems ornamental to me now, some features of it, including the way the form repeats a word at the end of one stanza and the beginning of another, helped me gather the experience of that time.
Noah Warren on "Jetty" |
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"The Best Recent Poetry–Review Roundup"
David Wheatley reviews Thinking With Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant; The Craft of Poetry by Lucy Newlyn; Brilliant Corners by Nuzhat Bukhari; Forty Names by Parwana Fayyaz; and Auguries of a Minor God by Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Yona Harvey on Lauren Russell's Descent
"The result is a poetic, hybrid tour de force that delivers not only the assembled narrative, but accounts of creating the book itself: 'I came to this project in search of Peggy, but it is my life, too, my family’s life, I find expunged from the record.' Descent, after all, is Russell’s deep exploration of ancestry and historical omission." |
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