This poem, like many in "Helen of Troy, 1993" (Scribner, 2025), creates a palimpsest of modern and mythological violence. It's an imperfectly scraped parchment: when the light hits it just so, ancient hurts flash through the skin.
Maria Zoccola on "Helen of Troy Calls Her Sister" |
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A Conversation with Wendy Call and Shook
"I hope that part of what the unique trilingual format of How to Be a Good Savage provides the reader is a sense of the rich spaces between these languages, which have their own distinct, complex sociocultural and historical relationships, too. I don't know if there is a 'depth of meaning' that is impossible to convey, but if you track the various line lengths across languages, you will definitely encounter instances in which equal conciseness seems impossible!"
via LITHUB |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Erin Marie Lynch on Reading Prose
"My family's archive was haunting me. Or the archive beneath the archive, the archive against the archive. The archive that could be for us. I was trying to trace the movements of my ancestors backwards, from Oregon to Standing Rock to the Dakota homelands in Minnesota. I needed to find out whether my great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth, had been involved in the forced march following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and the following atrocities. And I needed poetry to understand the varied and various rippings and sutures of our people and our land." |
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