What Sparks Poetry:
Eugene Ostashevsky on Vasily Kamensky's “Constantinople"
"The Cubist language of the poem imposes cuts on words, fractures them into planes by repetition and variation, and recombines parts of words to build other words. Although the poem lacks a single order of reading—nor do we have evidence that Kamensky ever performed it out loud—it pulsates with sound repetitions. Repetitions convert its word lists into the sonic counterparts of Cubist planes, with each word turning into a formal variation of the one above it." |
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"Terms of Entry"
"Solmaz Sharif wrestles with the ways that acclaim can become an imperial enclosure; I once heard her say, 'I try to write poems that make it impossible to applaud afterward.' Reaching toward forms of relation that are not fully apprehensible from life in the metropole, her work rejects the embrace of any we for whom sharing is an uncomplicated act."
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