"This piece was part of a larger series imagining femme chimeras (including Medusa and the Lamia) and how they'd live today, most of which ended up scrapped. But this poem, this voice, lingered. With most of the original trappings faded away—the modern context winnowed to past tellings of the myth—Syrinx's mind and language clarified. Even though the poem restricts breath, her language sharpens, calcifies." Cassandra J. Bruner on "Prayer: Syrinx" |
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” in 2020"The murdered albatross is a bottomless symbol: It stands for everything you greedily grabbed at, everything you squandered or spurned, every ornament of the ego, every plastic water bottle, every corrosive pleasure, every idle meanness, every dead and bleached-out lump of coral on the Great Barrier Reef." via THE ATLANTIC |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Ana Božičević on Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”""I can’t underestimate how much this kind of spelled repetition, the shifting meter and rhyme patterns following their own emotional logic and the music inside the words, influenced the way I write in English—Rossetti’s “irregular measures” that John Ruskin amusingly declared a “calamity of modern poetry.” But they also found a kindred bell in the ear as I simultaneously read the anonymous Croatian poets of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, poems of chant and repetition, epic simile and Slavic antithesis." |
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