Diana Khoi Nguyen on Alternative Family Histories
"If the video shows one thing, but you remember that moment very differently, how do you reconcile the two? I think both are true and also not true. In that between space, I wanted to create alternate histories as a way to try to fashion hope amid tension. It is so incredible that we can imagine things that didn’t happen and immerse ourselves in these speculative details. Our brains are the original VR!"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evelyn Reilly on "Having Broken, Are"
"I live in New York City and also down a dirt road in the country, and that dual existence is part of the 'reality' of both the title poem and the poem sequences that make up most of this book. I put 'reality' in quotation marks because all poems, I believe, are attempts to channel what Sun RA (who is also an interlocutor in this book) calls the 'impossible possible,' which is both a reality and not. Seeking possible words for impossible possibilities I take as one of poetry’s tasks." |
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