What Sparks Poetry:
Daniela Danz on [Come wilderness into our homes]
"With our ever-increasing distance from nature, alongside our excessive extractive practices, the idea of wilderness has become a topos of longing; nevertheless, wilderness still harbors the potential to undo the cultural achievements that are the basis of human civilization. Prior to the Enlightenment, European thought regarded wilderness as a threat, if also a source of fascination; in the Enlightenment’s wake, wilderness was rebranded as an Edenic original condition." |
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"Happy Belated Birthday to James Schuyler"
"'Past is past' does not equal 'Past / is past.' So much depends on that nonidentity. The latter instance of the phrase, while still melancholy, has a heartbeat: the silence at the break is felt, possesses its own duration, the form happens in the renewable present tense of reading, so that—to take a phrase from Jack Spicer—the 'thing language' of the poem overcomes its content, and the line no longer laments time that is simply lost."
via THE PARIS REVIEW |
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