This poem wonders about time. The middle-aged lovers on a French Mediterranean beach are acutely aware of their own age, of the “salt mirage” of eros. That fragility is set in the larger context of history: Maguelone was part of a Roman province, was fought over by Visigoths and Franks, and its 11th century cathedral is now a ruin. Each moment of peace and love is threatened.
Rosanna Warren on "At Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone" |
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"How Poet Maggie Smith 'Tried On' Hope"
"Keep Moving, which was published last fall, took on new meaning during the pandemic. 'We're all sort of wandering in the dark, feeling along the wall for the light switch and needing to draw on those best parts of ourselves, our resilience and courage, in order to get from day one to day two to day three.'"
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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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