"The Loving Mimicry of a Mark Leidner Universe"
"Reading a poem out of Mark Leidner's Returning The Sword To The Stone, is, in some sense, akin to experiencing the last light of the sun as it gives way to a moonless night sky hundreds of miles off from any human infrastructure. Musings, clauses, and associations pop up on the page as if sidereal mists and glimmering constellations, register briefly as singular sources of energy, and then expand infinitely into pointillist latticeworks of illumination and incandescence."
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What Sparks Poetry: Danielle Badra on Diane Seuss' "Still Life with Turkey""All of these cumulative experiences of death and all the ones yet to come and all the deaths that aren't even in my view, they are my beached whale. They are beautiful yet difficult to see up close. The only way I've ever been able to explore is from a safe distance. However, the exploration of death in all of Diane Seuss' poetry collections inspires me to zoom in a little closer, to love 'its saggy neck folds, the rippling, variegated / feathers, the crook of its unbound foot.'" |
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