On Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems
"The poems in this collection are not shy. They address personal discomfort, social displacement, and radical interpretation of Venezuelan modernization. Threading them together, too, is a strange spiritual thread, which makes each of the collection’s poems read like a surrealistic prayer offered to a god who may or may not be listening."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jonathan Skinner on "Unfolder"
"I suppose the poem downplays metamorphosis, and all its metaphorical associations, compressing the monarch’s ontogeny, from egg to larva or caterpillar molting through its instars eating their own shed skin to pupal stage with its cremaster to chrysalis and finally butterfly, into one stanza, like those time-lapse photography films we all watched in school. Instead, 'Unfolder' dilates on the risky moment of sexual encounter." |
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