"The Danger Is Beauty: Talking with Éireann Lorsung"
"The kaleidoscope is such a good image. The concept that I've come to for understanding history is this sense that things are recombinant rather than linear. And—I was actually just writing about this this morning—not recombinant in a way where you can say, okay, I'm just going to watch for X to repeat and then I will know that Y is happening. But the textures are recombinant."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Keene Carter on Susan Stewart's Cinder
"'Bees' is a wonderfully successful poem, as is the book Columbarium and indeed all of Cinder. I've pried into it a little because of its success, which is, as I've tried to show, tied directly to its 'failure'—a 'failure' in quotation marks because it is the failure to represent everything, and that's like calling death a failure of life: the requirement is absurd, even if the sentence is true." |
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