Joanna Penn Cooper Interviews Cynthia Arrieu-King
"My experience is that I saw these as prose blocks to be sequenced, almost in a big Jenga tower, and that if I shuffled them enough the way I 'moved the furniture around' when writing a poem, that something would happen. A lot of the book came at the very last minute when it seemed old prose blocks expired and had to be replaced."
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What Sparks Poetry:
David Blair On W. H. Auden's "Petition"
"Naturally, I enjoyed the subtle rhymes so much that I did not even notice them, nor the poem's sonnet form, a perfect spell working on my barely conscious mind because here, in the last line and a half of the poem, was a sentiment so sudden that I could, without embarrassment, sport around with it typed and taped to my binder on a strip of paper, a fortune cookie fortune, a restaurant's first dollar: 'look shining at / New styles of architecture, a change of heart.'" |
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