I had been re-reading Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet" and landed on his self-assessment: "I am the space between what I am and what I am not, between what I dream and what life makes of me." In "Joy Ride," a certain memory persists because it offers transport to the eruption of the present and an essential unknowingness. What we envision is archetypal, while the myths gesture over their shoulders to the actual. The Knotty Pine is gone but another bar exists at that location.
Ron Slate on "Joy Ride" |
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Alaskan Poet dg nanouk okpik, a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
"okpik, the recipient of honors such as the American Book Award for her first book, 'Corpse Whale,' said that when writing poetry, awards are never top of mind. 'When I write, I write to breathe, and I breathe to write,' okpik said. 'This is something that is compelling in my life that I do, that is not a want. It's a need. And there's a difference.'"
via ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS |
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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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