What Sparks Poetry:
Joshua Edwards on Gérard de Nerval's "Waking Up in a Stagecoach"
"I began with the title: “Le Réveil en voiture.” It seemed so simple. “Réveil” is “awaken” and “voiture” is something that carries someone, a vehicle. But which vehicle to put the reader in? What should carry them through the landscape of the poem? The obvious choices at first were “carriage” and “coach,” but those seemed too distant, too private, too monochrome. “Stagecoach” felt better! It was technicolor." |
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"The Searching Poetry of Safia Elhillo"
"Elhillo’s poems often train their gaze on some half-shrouded point behind them, less concerned with finding their way back than describing the fog. The writing moves by torchlight, mapping haunted ground, measuring the distance between 'where i’m from' and 'where i was put,' the Sudan of her alternate selves and the America of her one life."
viaTHE NATION |
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