"Big Laughs and Hard Silences in Erin Belieu’s Poetry"
"The foundation of Belieu’s language, and also its primary defense, is paradox—the symbiosis of apparent opposites. The poems create insinuations in order to undermine them: the 'wrong idea' might, a beat later, be the 'right' one. The trapped speaker wonders if she didn’t set her own trap."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jeffrey Angles on "The Maltreatment of Meaning"
"Real poetry, Itō reminds us, doesn’t only come from a poet simply saying something—it also comes from the ways that the poet resists the ordinary processes of saying. The writer unlocks new potential by subverting, manipulating, and defamiliarizing the patterns that structure our logic and expression. Poems need to be more than a series of simple, ordinary statements strung together." |
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