What Sparks Poetry: Susan Tichy on Gary Snyder's "Logging" "I was eighteen when I picked up the original edition of Snyder’s Myths & Texts...I had been writing poems for several years, and even had published a few, but something new happened in those pages: I heard/saw for the first time how a web of sound could juxtapose unadorned image + simple statement into something…not exactly larger than its parts, but other than its parts. No longer were expansive and intensive poetics opposed: they were allies, creating the voice of a mind and a body finding place on earth." |