This is the ninth poem in a sequence of twelve poems titled "No Home Go Home / Go Home No Home" in my book "Line and Light." The set of poems form a loose renga intercalated with twelve tea-ink drawings by the artist Kazumi Tanaka. The pictures form a visual linkage between each verse—each image a verse unit—so that the end of one poem foretells the image that follows it while each poem dwells on the image before it.
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Carl Phillips Wins Pulitzer Prize
"Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an 'ongoing quest'; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Cecily Parks on "Girlhood"
"Readers and writers of ecological poetry long ago abandoned the notion that representation alone equates to an ecological engagement with the natural world. This line of thinking draws ecopoetry and ekphrastic poetry into an agreement: description is valuable if it’s rhetorical. Rhetorical is another way of saying persuasive, or moving, but it is not another way of saying pedantic." |
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