"For all my watching, I couldn’t describe a cat’s movements sufficiently. So I pared this poem down to the bones of a Siamese, and borrowed diction—“leg it”—more stylish than my own, from a human I once admired so much it seemed best to keep my distance. (Note: It turns out that time passes and some things, like this cat, come through it to figure in later, warmer poems.)"
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Enduring Desires: Henri Cole and Eduardo C. Corral
"Reading Cole and Corral side by side, you find, everywhere, poems about the periodicity of desire, its alternating flights and crashes, in both private and political spaces. The body, given away to lovers, is reclaimed, though transformed into a subject for speculation, appraisal—and, finally, for poetry."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Cole Swensen on "Agnes Varda: Here There & Then Now"
“The object I’m considering is a landscape, which includes recognizing myself as part of any landscape that I’m engaging, whether I’m looking at it, remembering it, imagining it, or writing about it, and whether that landscape is the rolling hills of California, a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, a video by Zenib Sedira, or an argument for public parks by Fredrick Law Olmsted." |
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