"The poetry of Palestinian writer Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is a celebration of, and a nod to, inimitable simplicity. Maya’s catalogs and leaps are not about creating musical awe or mental explosions. She stacks and files her contradictions, presences and absences, tragicomic pleasures, in stride—with lucid feelings, an illusory disappearance of hesitation: in rooms, streets, houses, on bookshelves or maps full of organized chaos and well-misplaced items."
Fady Joudah on "A Road for Loss" |
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"The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay"
"Informed by the unruly mind of a young woman post–World War I, riddled with distrust and resistance, Figs juggled rage and comedy with indulgence and scarcity, among a hatred of Thursdays, and the bores of adulthood. Figs established Millay as a woman willing to laugh at those who sought to tame her, as much as she was willing to scream."
via LIT HUB |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Ana Božičević on Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”"
"I can’t underestimate how much this kind of spelled repetition, the shifting meter and rhyme patterns following their own emotional logic and the music inside the words, influenced the way I write in English—Rossetti’s “irregular measures” that John Ruskin amusingly declared a “calamity of modern poetry.” But they also found a kindred bell in the ear as I simultaneously read the anonymous Croatian poets of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, poems of chant and repetition, epic simile and Slavic antithesis." |
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