"Short Conversations with Poets: Camille Dungy"
"But poems also operate by what I call paralogical means. Kinds of logic that run on parallel tracks to the logic we glean from the newspaper. Sounds, rhythms, senses, metaphor, allusion and references, the palimpsests of misapprehensions and shifting meanings revealed via line breaks, even visual responses to the shape of a poem on the page: we accept all of these and more as ways poems can make meaning."
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What Sparks Poetry:
David Hinton on Li Po's "Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon"
"I’ve found that translating classical Chinese poetry is a way for me to make contemporary poetry that operates outside of the Western cosmological or mythological system, even so far as to register a very different sense of what the self is. In this poetry, identity can be so much a part of the empirical world that it actually becomes landscape." |
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