John Keene Seeks Out Challenges in His Reading
John Keene talks about the poetry he's reading just now. "Gabrielle Octavia Rucker’s fantastic little collection, Dereliction, which I’ve read before. I’ve also been liking Rio Cortez’s Golden Ax and Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense. All three poets are grappling with pressing social and political topics but they do it in very different and interesting ways."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Wong May on In the Same Light
"Writing poetry or reading a poem is by nature a transgressive act.
You are transgressing a stranger’s consciousness. This stranger may be yourself.
Translating an ancient text & you are transgressing above all against Time.
When the work goes well, you are translating without acknowledging Time." |
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