| My mother went to elementary school with the actress Martha Plimpton, who once borrowed her red bikini. I began with that image, and started thinking about how interiority functions and exposes itself during moments of chaos and loss. In this case, like a house burning down, which is an experience my family had when I was young. Delilah Silberman on "Martha" |
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"Short Conversations with Poets: Ama Codjoe"
"To see the self—most difficult of all. Codjoe registers not only the realization, but also the incandescence generated in the attempt to do so, the mere beauty of the trying to see what you can’t see. Words fail, then, but they paint something else in their failing, and this is the triumph of lyric."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Cindy Juyoung Ok on Kim Hyesoon's "After All the Birds Have Gone"
"Stanzas and whole poems refuse the unit of the sentence, creating new syntax and refusing to designate themselves relevant to the constructs of past, present, or future. Kim’s is a poetry of present aftermath—of the annihilation absolute but not completed, of the past yet also ongoing. Although the source text of 'After All the Birds Have Gone' is in the present tense, its frame of reference is of survival, invoking the past, while the implied conditional hints at the future." |
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