What Sparks Poetry:
J. Michael Martinez on Reading Prose
"I wanted to understand its syntactic logic of worlding, and, so, I mirrored Angello's process: in my work, I chose to meditate, word by word, on the chorus of Ritchie Valens' "We Belong Together." The prose poem sequence that emerged became a structuring force for the book as a whole; the sequence's prose ruminations on temporality, the body, and love, spread out across the book, acted as scaffolds to Tarta Americana's overarching themes." |
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An Interview with Toby Altman
"For one thing, the poetics that emerge in Discipline Park are more occasional. The poems are often linked to specific places and times. They're also more environmental—they're responding to specific environments. But the poems are also more personal, almost confessional. The lyric 'I' enters the work in a way it hadn't before. Finally, the reference points are more modernist. For example, I was actively thinking about Gertrude Stein while working on Discipline Park as a poetic instance of the kind of modularity and repetition one finds in brutalist architecture."
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