What Sparks Poetry:
Deborah Woodard on Amelia Rosselli's The Dragonfly
"What I hope comes through in my and Roberta Antognini’s translation of this passage is the obsessive insistence with which Rosselli demands we search for and find Ortensia, and how equally insistently the text embodies a desire that is somehow delicate, hermetic and insatiable by turns. Rosselli takes the onanistic, gratingly abrupt though brilliant original and gives it a brand new lyrical body along with a new subjectivity to inhabit that body." |
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"Giving the Reader a Poetic Experience"
Robin Coste Lewis talks about her new collection, To the Perfect Realization of Helplessness. "I am much more interested in the ways in which a poem can be a two-word experience that disarms the reader, that takes the reader back toward a place they have forgotten, or plunges the reader forward into a wordless dream they never imagined possible."
via LIT HUB |
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