Reading Bert Meyers cleanses the senses. His poems intimately connect a reader to the physical gifts of the earth, to truly being an animal, and to the living, trembling moment. When I need to ground myself, touch the essential natures of things, I read Bert Meyers. His images are that tactile, concise, and alive. Bert’s poems teach us to gaze intently, with our whole, hungry souls, and to recognize immensities in the seemingly simple, the apparently humble, the easily overlooked.
Amy Gerstler on Bert Meyers |
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"Echo and Break": Megan Fernandes
"It’s clear that for Fernandes, love means a fugitive intimacy, a way of being together that escapes the language and jurisdictions of power. If ethics enter this domain, they do so as a horizon of potential, not prescriptive rules. As the winking title I Do Everything I’m Told shows, love can also be logos—a way of making language flesh and vice versa. (Erotic love, in this collection, often sounds like divine love.)"
via POETRY FOUNDATION |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jennifer Kronovet on Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony
"'Cruelty and beauty—how do they coexist?' Don Mee Choi asks this question in the middle of her book DMZ Colony. To say that she answers that question is not quite right. What Choi does is harder: she gives us new ways to think it through—she creates a vocabulary, syntax, multiple codes, maps, and sounds so that we can enter specific devastations, see how they weave, like all colonial disasters, backward and forward in time." |
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