Today's Headline: Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander in Conversation What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Life in Public
"In 'Forgiveness,' Pinsky’s fluid, associative form moves an electron cloud of image, shadow, and fact around a heavy nucleus of a solitary voice wrestling with its own thoughts, ambitions, and ethical questions. The poem steers from Emmanuel Levinas’s lecture 'The forgiving / Of an unforgivable crime' to Pound’s poetics (and Pinsky’s revelation about duration and stress) in a whorl of motion, a record of a dynamic thought process animated, in part, by music." |
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Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander in Conversation
"Sometimes I think we’re called to focus. The gravity of something, its discrete expression, the way light and shadow touch it, the radiance of its form, even the way it conducts the earth’s vibrations, despite that they are too faint for us to consciously sense them, affect us. We cock our ears, peel our eyes, orient our attention toward something that has spoken and so initiates the condition for meaning to stir within us."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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