"And Then Music:" Jane Mead's Collected Poems
"[T]he ancient lyre, its voice made of wind streaming through trees and grasses — into air articulate — is closest, I believe, to Jane Mead’s authentic 'instrument.' In similar polyphony, she occasions thunder, fire, discordance, explosive ruptures in atmosphere and human relations. She 'conducts' her thinking in her poems—and thus in each poem’s musical gesturing, she also 'conducts' the reader."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Prageeta Sharma on Marjorie Welish's "Some Street Cries"
“In Welish’s work I saw an embrace of the most wild, abstract and observational in Stevens, informed with her renewed freshness in constructing the image and its possible abstract correlative. She creates her own set of notes in her poems. Her book The Windows Flew Open broadened my universe of what the poem could be and hold as its subject: a language fueled from living in the mind." |
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