"Only This Or That: On Maggie Millner's Couplets"
"Faced with the most frightening question, 'What do I want?,' infatuation and discovery are blown to the side and dust settles. Here you are: vulnerable, starving, exhilarated. Love, Millner says, has been the engine of self-discovery in her life, the propulsive machine pushing towards a move, a change, an epithet you never thought you’d need."
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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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