Salgado’s father was a white landowner, his mother, who raised him, a black field worker of tremendous moral courage. Salgado rose from childhood poverty and illiteracy to become one of Brazil’s leading contemporary poets. In this twelve-poem sequence, drawn from "Consecration of the Wolves," the unifying image is the river of time and of history, which, like blood, links ancestral suffering to present-day pain accompanied by poetry’s hope.
Alexis Levitin on "Like A River 12" |
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"The Wilderness of Language in Atsuro Riley’s Heard-Hoard"
"Atsuro Riley's second full-length poetry collection is an onomatopoeic potpourri. In it, language, like nature, is elemental—a way of speaking and being in the world. Reminiscent of Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology as Gerard Manley Hopkins's poems, the collection calls us back to the roots of language, breaking it apart and putting it back together."
via PLOUGHSHARES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Amaud Jamaul Johnson on Joy Priest's Horsepower
"Her poetic line stretches out like a horizon barely visible over the steering wheel. Of course, if you've never burned a tank of gas, cross-hatching city streets on a late spring Sunday afternoon, braiding the voices of Al Green or Smokey Robinson through the ribbons of heat rising from the asphalt, this book is an invitation to joyride." |
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