Named after the South American (aka Amazon) leaffish, a predatory species that mimics a dead leaf drifting in freshwater. From a collection of poems titled “80 Fishes.”
Etienne Marsolet on "Leaffish" |
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"An Interview with Diane Seuss"
"As I have evolved as a body and a mind and imagination, I have felt both protective of my body as it is, and like it’s an impediment—maybe especially in the era of covid, which we pretend does not exist. The notion that the body “compresses the soul” feels right to me, in that it functions like form in a poem. Lyric compression. Body and soul. I’ve never written poems without a pronounced, even performed, awareness of and inclusion of my body, such as it is."
via POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jessica E. Johnson on "Of Daylight Saving Time, MyFitnessPal, and Indoor/Outdoor Cats"
"I want to weave in my long, stubborn opposition to hierarchy, noting how eyes trained on hierarchy and classification will miss what is rich, intricate, and inherently valuable in favor of an arbitrary metric. Rich, intricate, valuable: the adjectives call up the sword fern, mahonia, and yellow stream violet that grow under the tall, broad cedar I love and try to listen to, the whole system around her unsuited to commodification." |
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