In “13 Ways of Nepantla,” I’m attempting to place myself, my experiences, and my family at the center of a poetic lineage. All-in-all, what I’m trying to do is imagine myself in the song of “América America,” and more than just imagining, writing a place for myself in it.
Fernando Trujillo on "13 Ways of Nepantla" |
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Ryan Ruby on "Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry"
"Pope still has much to say to us. After all, our literary world—with its new publishing platforms, its insatiable demand for a cheap supply of the written word, its cutthroat competition on the open market, its proliferation of critics and coteries, its devotion to the topical, its anxieties about authenticity and anonymity—and our political world—stained by corruption, commerce, and buffoonish stupidity—rhymes with the one that inspired him to write The Dunciad."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Mary-Alice Daniel on Object Lessons
"Science is one language articulating the esoteric fabric of spacetime. Verse is another valence. Astrophysics and poetry pair prettily. Both concern themselves with the behavior and spectacle of celestial bodies; with the margins of massive matters alongside the infinitesimal; the inconceivable infinite. Dreamers in the two disciplines speculate alternate & extra dimensions. We enlist anomaly. We trouble in stasis. We peer into—across—the reality tunnel: the entangled expanse between what you see and I perceive." |
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