Sarah Ghazal Ali on Ghazals
"The ghazal deceives with its neat, rhythmic couplets, its boxy silhouette on the page. It intimates order, then shows its hand, revealing clamor, chaos, commotion. The ghazal calls to me, coaxes me to follow its song like a deer flitting through the trees. To go deeper into the woods and abandon, if only for a moment, my reliance on control, cohesion, connection. Maybe one day I'll honor my mother tongue, my mother, my father, my name."
via THE POETRY FOUNDATION |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Maricela Guerrero (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
"And this is precisely where poetry and poetic communion shelter me with hope without optimism; where, in the different languages inhabited by beings with whom I share the air and water of this planet, we come together in longing for and choosing another way of interweaving, of searching inside ourselves for new ways to reverse this disaster." |
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