What Sparks Poetry:
Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. on Drafts
"What was this? Where did it come from? How did it get there? Had it not been in my notebook, in my handwriting, between two journal entries that I did recall writing, I would have tried to dismiss it somehow. But there it was. It would not be trifled with, so I put aside the various poetry experiments and series on which I’d been working and stepped into its weird lyric space-time of After the operation....” |
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In Conversation: Jesse Nathan and Margaret Ross
"I started working this way when I was full of doubt and couldn’t write and was living in California, stuck in traffic all the time. Letting a poem accrue in the car gradually restored my belief. That gut sense of a poem when it only exists as speech and sound feels like brushing up against some ambient spirit I want to follow even after things are written down. Working from memory has given me an inner life I rely on, plus it detaches poetry from my laptop, which I’m always relieved to avoid."
via MCSWEENEY'S |
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