"Celebratory moments are often shared in public while mourning is expected to be done in private. What happens when an experience entangles both moments? Twins present a complicated landscape—how does one not seem ungrateful for one incredible life beginning while grieving the loss of another? This poem wants to ask what it means to feel sad about celebration as well as a deep desire for others to want to celebrate."
Cori A. Winrock on "Réseau Plate: Interior with Gemini Constellation" |
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"Intimate, Electric and Defiant"
Reviewing Natalie Diaz' Postcolonial Love Poem, Emily Pérez writes, "Conveying clear ideas through crisp, dazzling images, Diaz’s poems typically unfold in long lines grouped into short stanzas. She instructs and inquires; she mourns and rhapsodises. And though she is at the centre of several 'wars'—squaring off with institutional racism, her brother’s drug addiction and environmental destruction—she also devotes much of the collection to eros and 'wag[ing] love.'"
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Amaud Jamaul Johnson on “Possum Dead”
"I’m not that old, but I’ve lived long enough to know that the lion’s share of my life is behind me. I know there are relationships I can’t hold on to, and places I can’t return to. I’m just beginning to see 'real time,' the arc of almost half a century, and how the generational waves, both violent and beautiful, define our species." |
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