“Jittery Nocturne” is made from many voices. In class, we’d read Agha Shahid Ali’s “Ghazal: To Be Teased into DisUnity” and talked about ghazals, about repetition, and asked how, as poets, we might respond to history not ours to own. In the middle of the semester, the pandemic scattered us. The rest of the spring, I walked around a lot and felt I was trying to hold onto people in houses, and to the houses themselves. Like they were buoys.
Kate Northrop on "Jittery Nocturne" |
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Happy New Year from Poetry Daily
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"What If?: Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot"
"Eliot was writing his obituary for Woolf while also drafting 'Little Gidding.' Both the poem and the obituary caused him great difficulty. Placing the two together, with Eliot’s Hale letters on hand, allows us to see the regret for a lost friend in the poem, where the obituary fails."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
David Herd on Emily Dickinson's [I Dwell in Possibility —]
"The poem’s possibilities are many. You feel them at every turn; in every space held open by her signature dash. The windows are numerous in this house because the poem’s meanings shift, each word opened to the range of its definitions. When she occupies in the final stanza–when she states her “occupation”– we see her in her self-appointed role as maker of poems." |
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