What Sparks Poetry:
Jay Besemer on Tristan Tzara's “Anecdote""Already focusing on short, intense poems in my own writing, the eleven-line near-sonnet of 'Anecdote' made me feel that I had a path ahead of me ('from one halt to the next') and reassured me that I was not alone in my experiences of violent alienation and the sense of being wrong, badly-suited for what the whole world seemed to expect of me. In both form and content, 'Anecdote' resonated with my own needs, perspective and experiences, both interior and as a human animal in the world." |
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Still Writing: Gerald Stern at 95 "They shimmy and shake, they dip and twirl, and sometimes they move with such elan they appear to float right off the page. Mr. Stern's poetry is a study in movement, specifically the idiosyncratic and very personal way in which one flickering thought leads to another, and another, and another, the journey of a frolicsome mind, his nimble choreography holding it all together."
viaPITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE |
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