WHAT SPARKS POETRY:
VIVEK NARAYANAN ON JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO'S
"THE THREE BIRDS"
"When, at the age of 15, I was touched again by Gray’s 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' it actually frightened me, as if I were being called by ghosts and ancestors down an unwise path. I gingerly started getting into some of the Americans and the moderns but it seemed almost obvious that people like me didn’t become poets." | 