"Panzer Herz" is in part a collection exploring masculine interiority, or its assumed absence. The heart (herz) is the central object, but this poem explores another corporeal angle. A long-time "Uncanny X-Men" fan, I used the idea of Wolverine's relative physical invulnerability and spun it towards the emotional. I think I was raised to be emotionally impenetrable as a man, which isn't the remarkable power some think it is.
Kyle Dargan on "Mutant Dealing Factor" |
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Chile Re-investigates Pablo Neruda's Death
"An appeals court in Santiago ordered the reopening of the investigation into the death of Neruda, who was a prominent member of Chile's Communist Party when military dictator Augusto Pinochet took power in 1973. In a statement, the court said that the 'investigation has not been exhausted as there are precise procedures that can be carried out to clarify the facts.'"
viaFRANCE 24 |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jessica Fisher on Language as Form
"When the voice began, it wasn’t mine, nor did it belong to anyone else in particular—it was instead something like the possibility of speech beginning again, after a period of long silence. Writing often begins for me with this form of potential opening, and the work is to follow the voice as it accrues—or, to follow its underlying rhythm. I love that the I/you relation so central to lyric poetry can accommodate a simultaneous intimacy and anonymity, that there doesn’t have to be any external circumstance to which the poem refers." |
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