"It Must Be a Misunderstanding" is a book-length work whose force builds as the poems cycle through their sequences. The “plot” tracks Bracho’s mother’s dementia with non-judgmental affection and compassionate watchfulness. We come to know an opinionated woman whose resilience, despite her dehiscent memory, becomes most clear in her adaptive strategies. The poems involve us in the mind’s bafflement and wonder, in the emotional drama that draws us across the widening linguistic gaps that reroute communication.
Forrest Gander on "(Observations)" |
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"Diane Seuss’s Advice for Life as a Writer"
"I wish you a sexy, dangerous, jazz-shaped immortality. I wish you the touch of the hand of the dead through the page; I wish you the will, the courage, to resurrect them via your attention. The guts to deconstruct the lies. I wish you a daisy chain of memorable kisses that link you back to your ancestors, and forward to those writers you can barely imagine."
via LITHUB |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Isabel Zapata (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
I wrote the book Una ballena es un país (translated as A Whale Is a Country by Robin Myers), in an attempt to say what the language of the academy and the language of activism hadn’t allowed me to say....I conceived this book as an invitation to challenge the boundaries between action and reality, between poetry and essays and stories, between the role we think we play on this planet and the role that climate crisis and the sixth mass extinction demand we take up. |
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