"“Polaroid” is for my father-in-law Peter Carcia (1937-2024), who made a career of designing cameras for the Polaroid Corporation while maintaining his own art practice. Peter was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2019. For a brief while, Peter could reflect lucidly on his disease while simultaneously exhibiting the initial symptoms of its onset. This poem came from one of those conversations and was given to him soon after.
Dobby Gibson on "Polaroid" |
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"When Emily Dickinson Mailed It In"
"The nearly seven decades of scholarship that have followed Johnson’s pronouncement of Dickinson’s reclusiveness—scholarship to which Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell, the new volume’s editors, have contributed and from which they adroitly draw—have revealed it to be a crude caricature, one that says as much about men’s fantasies about women (and about poetry readers’ fantasies about poets) as it does about the actual person who wrote those thousand-odd letters."
via THE NEW YORKER |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Robert Pinsky on David Ferry's "Johnson on Pope"
"In a way, though, the mundanity of the real story gets at the heart of The World's Wife: throughout the book, our meticulous cultural inheritance—our gods, our legends, our myths, our grandest stories—are stripped of their sheen and recast on a smaller, human scale. The collection is comprised of a series of dramatic monologues from the perspectives of the women who have been sidelined, overlooked, omitted." |
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