"Procession" exemplifies many questions of voice—of giving voice during times of war and catastrophe—registered in Lürssen’s debut collection, "Human is to Wander." Comprised of lines collaged from numerous sources—including reportage of the Rwandan genocide of the early 1990s and Lawrence Weschler’s remarkable essay on the paintings of Jan Vermeer and their connection to the murderous dissolution of Yugoslavia—the poem asks “where is one invited to imagine/ the letters are coming from?”—which the book then attempts to answer…
Adrian Lürssen on "Procession: Firsts & Lasts, by Ones & Threes, in the Schoolyard of Ghosts" |
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"On Prose Poetry and the Beauty of a Single Sentence"
"Yet I’ve learned that the borders between modes and genres of writing are often the richest for experimentation and growth. I started writing prose poems to understand both prose and poetry, and yes, to acknowledge their shared dependence upon the sentence. Like so much of my reading and writing life, I found what I sought in literary magazines."
via LITHUB |
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