"Literature Isn’t Bound by the Rules of Time"
"For example, a Nomi Stone poem about cleaning mussels begins in the present, as the speaker prepares a meal. Then it vividly considers her wife’s childhood, even though the speaker wasn’t present then. It ends with a lament: 'Isn’t it beautiful and terrible to exist inside / time: to already be not there but here then here—'"
via THE ATLANTIC |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Isabel Zapata (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
I wrote the book Una ballena es un país (translated as A Whale Is a Country by Robin Myers), in an attempt to say what the language of the academy and the language of activism hadn’t allowed me to say....I conceived this book as an invitation to challenge the boundaries between action and reality, between poetry and essays and stories, between the role we think we play on this planet and the role that climate crisis and the sixth mass extinction demand we take up. |
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