Between Belonging and Unbelonging
Juan Felipe Herrera reflects on his new, most personal book, Every Day We Get More Illegal. "It’s first line to last line. It’s like [the paintings of Mark] Rothko: one color, and then another color comes in and then more color and the next color. One breath, the first word, and then I follow it. I do have a sense of what it is. That’s all it is, a sense. A first line, an image, a landscape."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Forrest Gander on "It Must Be a Misunderstanding"
"I chose to translate this whole book rather than another selected edition because, although composed of individual poems, It Must Be a Misunderstanding is really a deeply affecting book-length work whose force builds as the poems cycle through their sequences. The 'plot' follows a general trajectory—from early to late Alzheimer’s—with non-judgmental affection and compassionate watchfulness." |
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