What Sparks Poetry:
Dujie Tahat on Hoa Nguyen's A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
"Nguyen magnificently opens us up in an almost tessellation-like effect, zooming in in order to zoom out. In reading A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, I was often reminded of Denise Levertov’s 'Accuracy is always the gateway to mystery.' However, Nguyen provides—to this reader, at least—not just mystery, but a new orientation towards lyric." |
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"War Poetry in Ukraine: Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk"
"Both Zhadan and Yakimchuk have been personally affected by war, and both have felt the need to report its everyday horrors, to memorialize those who have perished, and to understand what they have witnessed. As the war that began in 2014 reaches a dangerous turning point, Zhadan’s A New Orthography and Yakimchuk’s Apricots of Donbas remind us of the toll this long conflict has taken on living beings and on the land that sustained them."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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