"This piece belongs to a serial project that attempts to investigate and contextualize the contemporary public debate about reparations through a series of lyric arguments and proposed systems for remuneration. The impetus for this particular poem comes from a stray thought I found scribbled in the margins of an old journal entry: My fear of history is a valid fear of power—stripped, lorded over, misguided—corrupting one’s sense of need in favor of excess."Marcus Wicker on "Reparations Redefinition: Bond" |
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"Horace’s How-To" "In 476 lines of dactylic hexameter, one of the great Roman poets tells us, if not how he wrote his songs, at any rate how we should go about writing ours. The advice is not all his own; an ancient commentator notes that the poet drew some of it from a third-century BC Greek critic called Neoptolemus of Parium. But it is Horace’s version that has lasted." via NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Ana Božičević on Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”""I can’t underestimate how much this kind of spelled repetition, the shifting meter and rhyme patterns following their own emotional logic and the music inside the words, influenced the way I write in English—Rossetti’s “irregular measures” that John Ruskin amusingly declared a “calamity of modern poetry.” But they also found a kindred bell in the ear as I simultaneously read the anonymous Croatian poets of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, poems of chant and repetition, epic simile and Slavic antithesis." |
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