"A Conversation with Brandon Brown"
"When I’m in the space of the poem, I find this extra power. There is something extra-sensory about it. I feel like when I’m writing a book the trash is smellier, the wine more delicious. But I’m also conscious of wanting (sometimes) to charm someone with my poem, and one way to try to charm someone I guess is to express something mundane or unheroic....in a way that is funny or sad or dramatic or exaggerated."
via POETRY NORTHWEST |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Wong May on In the Same Light
"Writing poetry or reading a poem is by nature a transgressive act.
You are transgressing a stranger’s consciousness. This stranger may be yourself.
Translating an ancient text & you are transgressing above all against Time.
When the work goes well, you are translating without acknowledging Time." |
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