Formerly, the poem was “A Season in Hell.” A mentor suggested I add “with Rimbaud,” which elevated the brother in my mind beyond the realm of stock. There were a couple of years between then and deciding to make the poem the start of what became "A Season in Hell with Rimbaud." It seemed daunting to think about the two brothers beyond that scene given how grand the story was already implied to be, but here we are. I’m grateful.
Dustin Pearson on "A Season in Hell with Rimbaud" |
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Tishani Doshi on a Fresh Vision of the Ramayana
"The poems in Vivek Narayanan’s After, however, are masterfully aware in terms of tone and the ‘time-spirit’ (‘Some Omens’)—leaning into the wonderful slipperiness of epic time, while being fully cognisant of these current fractious times....The result is a collection of leaping, fierce poems that move in several directions, leaving the reader besieged and dazzled in equal measure."
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Rob Schlegel on Michele Glazer's fretwork
"In an explanation of the process the multidisciplinary artist Saul Melman uses in his Anthropocene Series (featured on the cover of fretwork) Glazer writes, 'The artist sets a process in motion, but the materials have the last word.' It's a deeply instructive metaphor for how Glazer allies with language to create poems that feel and sound as though she is tapping into a frequency just beyond herself." |
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