"In Pursuit of Wonder, Ada Limón Goes to Outer Space"
"I’m always scared of the 'we' because I don’t want to speak for others. So I think that I had to really surrender to the 'we' in this poem, and that’s when the poem became a different engine. It’s a poem for the collective, by the collective. I also realized that, if I was going to harness the idea of the collective, I wasn’t just speaking for humans. I was speaking for every living being on Earth."
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What Sparks Poetry:
David Gorin on Life in Public
"The surface of the moon in winter is a figure for isolation. It could be a happy isolation, the kind that writers and artists often seek to do their work, which we often dignify with the name 'solitude.' Its 'winter' could imply what Wallace Stevens had in mind in 'The Snow Man,' a state in which one sees 'nothing that is not there'—that is, without projection or illusion. But that isolation might also be the kind that isn’t happy. It could be the kind that comes with being close to people in the wrong way, or the one to which you flee when you have experienced wrong closeness, where intimacy is a vector for harm." |
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