What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems. In Books We’ve Loved, our editorial board members reflect on a book that has been particularly meaningful to them in the last year. Each Monday's delivery brings you a poem from the book and an excerpt from the essay. 
the surrounding smoke they made[
in warships, spear-shafts d[
men are tearing, and he wilts[
in the sunlight, courage and[
great longing for[
of Naxians able to f[
of trees cut sharp down[
men hold back[
this would for all soldiers m[
as in the past without anger[
and of brothers[
of whom they cut off[
beat down beneath plague-like blows[
these things in my soul, my thinking heart[
abysmal deep]
but all the same dead[
knows now, if you[
of words who is destined[
some men in Thasos[
and Torone[
some men in swift ships[
and from Paros t[
and of the same mother born[
soul, heart, but[
fire now all around[
in the suburbs k[
they ever-scorch the earth[
violent men overrun[
readying for the road[
nothing lucky, nothing on the right[
from the book STONE-GARLAND / Milkweed Editions
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Heather Green on Dan Beachy-Quick's Stone-Garland

"Beachy-Quick introduces each poet, then 'sings another's song' through his translations, reifying each speakers' preoccupations, whether love or lust, revenge or financial ruin, aesthetic wonder or the transience of life. Throughout the book, we find all manner of fragments: poems torn in half, lines cut short mid-word, and other poems, according to Beachy-Quick, assembled from various incomplete texts, 'held together not by fact, but by resonance.'"
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Pitt Poet Toi Derricotte Wins 2021 Wallace Stevens Award

"Now 80, Ms. Derricotte is one of the most recognized poets in America and has been a mentor to generations of poets. As the co-founder of Cave Canem in 1996, she has been privileged to see younger poets and writers she’s championed become nationally recognized masters in their own right."

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