What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Henry on Tomaž Šalamun's "Sutra"
"Though Šalamun would leave the interview format behind, he continued to ask many questions in his work, sometimes building poems upon a series of questions, as in the poem featured here. Although the title, 'Sutra,' implies the imparting of wisdom or knowledge, Šalamun was more interested in the interplay between the questions and answers than in satisfying the expectations of a conventional sutra." |
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"The Poem’s Apprentice"
A. E. Stallings contemplates her selected poems, This Afterlife. "You can write to please certain editors or workshop leaders or critics, you can write in the mannerisms of your time (in a way, of course, we can’t help being of our time) and the award-winning poets of the day, but that is ultimately limiting. I sometimes think about Sappho and wonder what her ‘readership’ or audience would have reasonably been....And yet we are still reading her, and she somehow speaks directly to us."
via POETRY BIRMINGHAM |
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