What Sparks Poetry:
Rion Amilcar Scott on Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
"I often think about the precision in Hayden's language. The words that take on the work of casting several meanings. 'What did I know, what did I know/of love’s austere and lonely offices?' I know all the words he used, but in this formation, with the repetition, the odd use of the word 'offices' and its proximity to the words 'austere' and 'lonely,' the words seem alien and strange in the best way." |
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"Must-Read Poetry: May 2021"
Nick Ripatrazone discusses four newly published collections, including work by Isabel Duarte-Gray, Donika Kelly, Christopher Merrill, and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Of the last he writes, "Her Collected Poems is a worthy testament to a notable life in poetry, beginning with the 1972 collection Acts and Monuments, and reaching to recent works."
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