In Conversation with Maya C. Popa
"I was looking at the tensions inherent in wonder. It’s a powerful source of meaning and joy in our lives, but its etymology is linked to wound, to the sensation of being breached. That feels entirely right to me. Love, for instance, guarantees pain. It’s a sort of cliché by this point, and it’s not as though we’re fishing for pain in life. Rather, it’s that pain is guaranteed alongside the things we do wish to experience, and to live richly and fully comes with discomfort and grief."
via THE CORTLAND REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Marianne Boruch on "So we get there just as"
"Words came later, by accident in a silent room at a desk. But back there, one afternoon in that desolate expanse my husband and I and a stranger, the three of us came together over that creature stricken by a fellow human we desperately wanted to disown, a driver hot to desecrate the planet. I can’t tell you the rage in me as that car grew smaller and smaller then slipped into nothing’s pure distance." |
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