"Living in Fernando Pessoa’s World"
"He believed he was 'less real' than his alter egos, one of whom wrote: 'Strictly speaking, Fernando Pessoa doesn’t exist.' As Zenith puts it, 'No writer can rival Pessoa’s achievement in configuring, through his heteronyms, radically different poetic and philosophical attitudes that formed a glorious if not always harmonious musical ensemble.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dana Levin on Emily Kendal Frey's Lovability
"In Lovability, poem after poem seeks discernment against this agony, to untangle the sticky web of the imagined, the hoped for, the dreaded, the real, and encounter each unbraced. Perhaps this is the only project that matters. Perhaps it’s one of the most difficult things a person undergoes: the dismantling of dream, assumption, expectation, prejudice, in order to see clearly and honestly." |
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