Ross Gay: Finding Joy in Sorrow
Ross Gay talks about his new book, Inciting Joy, written during the pandemic. "I've just been more acutely attuned to the ways that we tend to one another, way more blown away with how beautiful and loving we are. Because the book was written at that time, and in a certain kind of way that's what the book is emerging from, it's being written out of a kind of ruins."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Boris Dralyuk on Julia Nemirovskaya's "Verse"
"'Verse,' by the Russophone American poet Julia Nemirovskaya (whose surname, it occurs to me, might share an origin with Nemerov’s in the town of Nemyriv, Ukraine), spoke to me straight away, as Julia’s poems always do. I’ve been translating her work for over a decade now, developing a vocabulary in English that isn’t quite mine and isn’t quite hers (how could it be, since she writes in Russian?) but is very much ours." |
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