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What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In our third series, The Poems of Others II, twenty-four poets pay homage to the poems that led them to write. Each Monday's delivery brings you the poem and an excerpt from the essay. 
I wander about as an exile
as a body does a shadow
A notion of split reference
if in silence hidden by darkness
there must be a Ghost
Iconic theory of metaphor
a sound and perfect voice
Its hiding is understood
Reader I do not wish to hide
in you to hide from you
It is the Word to whom she turns
True submission and subjection
 
 
Were Protestant dissenters
Who walk along this road
Who knows better than you know
I remember the strangers
Not finding names there
Immanence is white with this
Where to find charges
A hymn was contesting a claim
Court of interior recollection
Map of a wilderness of sin
There I cannot find there
I cannot hear your wandering prayer
of quiet
from the book THE NONCONFORMIST'S MEMORIAL / New Directions
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Cover of Susan Howe's book, The Nonconformist's Memorial
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Tracy Zeman on Susan Howe's "The Nonconformist's Memorial"


Howe’s techniques create an altered world that a reader can step into and attempt to decipher. In the act of reading, we enter into the act of making. I loved the mystery in that process and the reader-work involved as we participate in the unraveling of established histories and the un-silencing that results....She both implicates the existing narrative and reconfigures it to create space for others."
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Cover of Brenda Shaughnessy's book, The Octopus Museum

"Brenda Shaughnessy and Deborah Landau have written collections that investigate what it means to be alive and raise children in our current dystopia. While Shaughnessy creates a sci-fi world where animals rule and wonder where we went wrong, Landau stands directly in the present moment of shootings and neo-Nazis on streets." 

via THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
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