"In the Rose Garden"
"Narratives describing strange, sometimes dreamlike, episodes from a female protagonist’s childhood dominate the second section of Helen Tookey’s four-part collection of poems and prose poems, City of Departures. Some of the subjects are literary heroines or versions of them: here, the pronoun 'she' leaves identification open. Her experience is both individual and representative."
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What Sparks Poetry:
James Longenbach on Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “They Flee From Me”
"I’ve never much cared if a poem is metered or not, rhymed or not, and I found the twentieth century’s transformation of these formal tools into weapons by and large distracting. All poems live or die in the concerted arrangement of syllables into patterns that are alternatively broken or reinforced. Wyatt taught me that." |
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