While sound, form, and image are three fundaments of poetry, knowing this does not mean we can know how poetry works, how it breathes and transforms in relation to life, to language. Sound, form, image—each need one another to exist, as the panels in a triptych do, as forms of life and energy do. Even the triptych cannot hold the mystery; it is only a version, a three-sided windowing.
Jennifer Elise Foerster on "Triptych" |
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"An Interview with A. Van Jordan"
"In my poem and the film 'The Red Balloon,' there is the idea of a young child having a certain freedom to imagine and having others trying to quash that freedom to play, which is a thing that keeps coming up for me in many ways. It’s just one of those things that I keep looking at and I find that the older I get, the more I feel a desire to protect that when I see young people."
via SOUTHEAST REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Robin Myers on Other Arts
"I stopped to watch a group of people doing something odd and beautiful together on a patch of dry grass. Was it a dance improvisation workshop? An actors' warm-up? I couldn't tell, but it felt special to see them doing it. They drifted around and moved their limbs, interacting sporadically with their surroundings and each other, in a way that felt both spontaneous and coordinated, both public and private. Both practiced and unfinished, even unfinishable. They used only their bodies, no language at all." |
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