Visiting the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City was a fever dream. I was over-caffeinated, surrounded by tanks and bombs and evidence of war crimes. There was something vaguely Disneyland about it. The music. The tourists posing next to barrels of Agent Orange. Violence is rarely ever random or senseless, but it is often absurd. It is as tall as you. This is a poem about the absurdity.
Steven Duong on "Ordnance" |
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"Dante's Handwriting Revealed"
"A handwritten manuscript by Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy, Italy's 'national poet' and father of modern Italian, has been discovered by a nun....They date to his time as a student in Florence when he was copying out works on the art of government."
via DAILY MAIL |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Yona Harvey on Lauren Russell's Descent
"The result is a poetic, hybrid tour de force that delivers not only the assembled narrative, but accounts of creating the book itself: 'I came to this project in search of Peggy, but it is my life, too, my family’s life, I find expunged from the record.' Descent, after all, is Russell’s deep exploration of ancestry and historical omission." |
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