Oscar Oswald On Pastoral Poetry
"The pastoral offered me a way to reach within the American southwest for the poetry I always wanted to write. For me, it is particularly interesting to consider the pastoral in literatures that ask about the land and its inheritance. The book that springs to mind is Whereas by Layli Long Soldier."
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What Sparks Poetry:
G.C. Waldrep on Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer"
"It's not misdirection for art's sake; it's misdirection as mimesis, the mind's if not the external world's, the shared world's. Or maybe it is, as Kelly would perhaps have insisted, the shared world's way, after all. That, and the poem's music, which is the world's music, that goes on and on, and in which we are invited—really, commanded—to participate, for a little while." |
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