Robyn Schiff Discusses Her New Book Information Desk
"In Information Desk, I’ve tried to use my stanzas more obviously as timekeepers, and instead of arbitrarily counting the number of syllables in each line, I’ve created a syllabic stanzaic structure equal to my own age when I wrote it. As absurd a pursuit as this was, this seemed to me a way to strongly be in, of, and with time; however, the poem took many years to write, so the stanzaic form needed to keep growing in scale to accommodate the passage of years."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Duy Đoàn on Language as Form
"The only fixed form I think I have ever wanted to understand is the pantoum. The fact that it's a Southeast Asian form really appealed to me. From what I know, it's an old Malaysian form. All of the lines are repeated once in a predetermined order. I've seen lots of variations when it comes to the order. The poet decides. These repetitions bring about a unique musical quality, which is one of the big draws of the pantoum. But the thing I like most about the form is its transparency." |
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