What Sparks Poetry:
Evie Shockley on Language as Form
"I found this truism (which seems to readily reproduce itself: 'one sin begets another,' 'one tragedy begets another,' 'one wedding begets another') bubbling up in my brain. If only one vote begat another in that inevitable way, I sighed, thinking of how hard it was to get women’s right to vote established as the law of the land—and of how long it was after that before Black women were able to exercise their 'women’s rights.'" |
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Katie Farris' Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
"While cancer is often described as an individual phenomenon, Farris writes of her cancer care as fundamentally relational. In a poem early in the book, she describes how, in solidarity with her first cycle of chemotherapy, 'our cat leaves her whiskers on / the hardwood floor.' Throughout her poems, treatment is depicted as not only affecting the body connected to the IV. One’s partner, one’s cat, and one’s environment, too, are touched by chemotherapy, surgery, and broader bodily change."
via SYNAPSIS |
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