Best Recent Poetry Roundup
Oluwaseun Olayiwola reviews new books by Peter Gizzi, Gboyega Odubanjo, Jay Gao, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Ella Frears and Deborah Landau. Of Capildeo's collection, Polkadot Wounds, he writes, "Many of these poems are dedicated to others, dead and living, revealing a metapoetics of entanglement and community, those whom the poet wishes they could 'walk to the lighthouse with.' Thematically, formally and linguistically, this is a dizzyingly restless collection."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Hua Xi on Language as Form
"Each stanza introduces a new scene and in doing so, a new plane of thought. Sipping tea, the necessity of money. caves, arteries….appear in turn. Each of these subjects raise new questions, but in continuation with each other, like the formation of some secret pattern. There is something in the poem which 'touches itself everywhere at once,' as Kapil writes, a preponderance of edges but not jagged or sharp ones." |
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