What Sparks Poetry:
Sarah Riggs on Language as Form
"I determined each poem would be 47 lines, and the lines do not need to be connected to ones before or after, though they could be. There would be 47 poems. The name of each poem is the date it was written. To be in time, in the calendar, to have a project that is a book that is a series. To feel in the momentum of it. To slant into dream, to invite that we survive through the tilt and whir of connecting synapses." |
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Heather Green on Translation
"The words in a poem carry what Ralph Waldo Emerson called their 'fossil poetry,' or etymologies, some of which, when translating from French to English, as I do, are shared—like the underground springs they both draw on....And if each word has the vertical depth of its etymology and time-stamped usage, it has a horizontal breadth, too, in each author’s own lexicon, influenced by regional conventions, linguistic origins, and associations—both literary and quotidian—with each word, as well as the author’s favorite usages."
via POETRY FOUNDATION |
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