"Everything Sounds the Same / When It Burns"
"In its preoccupation with persona and not-knowing — 'I’d rather not know / what it is I’m doing' the speaker states in 'Abstract Poem' — Mark Levine’s re-issued collection Debt (1993) seems an anomaly within American poetry in 2019. Authenticity and sense of self are highly prized in a multitude of contemporary poems and essays: certain readers long for an experience that eschews all manners of artifice."
via HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Teare on Forcing the State to Remember
"In using the state’s archive against itself, in forcing the state to remember its many forms of violence against indigenous people, in releasing ancestral voices from their archival confines, Harkin counters oppression with 'infinite ways to imagine/ infinite possibilities to/ transform/ beyond this colonial-archive-box.' Her inventive and necessary interventions into Aboriginal Affairs records offer back to the state its own language not as a narcissistic exercise in nation-building but rather as an indictment of its alleged successes." |
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