| I wrote "Someone is the Water" across several September mornings in 2020. I'd been idly reading TJ Clark's book, "The Sight of Death," which probably sourced the poem's insistence on the materials of painting to describe the landscape of rural Arkansas. The self-conscious language of art-making was potent for me as I tried to approach and describe a memory of my adolescent difficulty with a parent's emotional and physical difficulties. Austin Araujo on "Someone Is the Water" |
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"Complexity as a Liberatory Practice": Tara Anne Dalbow on Mina Loy
"Loy sought to reanimate the divine force that is common to all beings. She sought to prove that God could be found not in the lofty cathedrals but on the humble wings of pigeons with their 'striped crescendos / of grey rainbow'....Perhaps, if we learn nothing else from Loy, this we can try: to see in the mess that we’ve made—the pollution, the garbage, the obsolete tech—something worth saving. To see in one another’s faces what is worth saving."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry: Ranjit Hoskote on Translation
"Mir’s voice speaks with clarity and urgency, with anguish and a timely critical resonance to our historical moment. His themes are our themes, his loss is our loss, his bewilderment is our bewilderment—the destroyed city, the devastated countryside, the scattering of friends, the exactions of exile. All these are features of our lives today, in a world marred by genocidal wars and forced migrations, invasions and insurrections, tanks and bulldozers, bombed cities and slaughtered populations." |
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