Can one prepare oneself for a violent death? The poem reflects my attempt to do so—by trying it on. As I was awaiting the invasion, I rehearsed suffering different types of bodily harm, sometimes from memory, sometimes through imagination, attempting to find words for each kind's unique flavor. What would it mean to witness, endure, and, perhaps, survive—a group of men armed with guns, a bomb, a missile?
Oksana Maksymchuk on "Approximations" |
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"On Homophonic Association"
"The longer I looked at the Chinese character, the more it became an object—the little picture that it is. In the picture there was a feeling. And I bowed to the character because it did what a poem does: contain a feeling. Each character a picture, and in the picture, a poem."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Laila Malik on "the organic properties of sand"
"In the petroleum economies of al Khaleej (as elsewhere), there exist micro-universes of so-called expats, a blossoming confusion of recent arrivals and longstanding, multi-generational clans, the newly affluent and then those others who live at the porous boundaries of the less desirable micro-universe of outsiders, migrant workers." |
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Write with Poetry Daily This April, to celebrate National Poetry Month, we'll share popular writing prompts from our "What Sparks Poetry" essay series each morning. Write along with us!
Write an ecstatic poem. Scare yourself. Johannes Göransson |
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