“The Book of Dreams” was originally written for Deep Signal (2019), an anthology of speculative fiction, to accompany cover art by Michael Kaluta. The artist based the cover on the keywords “cosmos storytelling,” and I wrote in response to Kaluta’s artwork.
Andrea Jurjević on "The Book of Dreams" |
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"Phil Christman on the Poetics of Place"
"When I think of what the Midwest gave to my imagination, I think first of the way this landscape suddenly shifted in those moments, the way I suddenly felt that I didn’t know it. It’s not only the flatness that writers like Michael Martone and Marilynne Robinson have described so well—how it makes the world into a kind of showcase or theater of the glory of God or of humankind or of the inexplicable—but a duality.
via LIT HUB |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lloyd Wallace on Language as Form
"As the poet attempts to bring their past into the present, into the poetic medium, attempting to make it a keepable artifact, we can see it being buried by the world, by outer artifice, just as the past is buried by the present. The key pathos—the beauty—of this poem is that as we see the poet speaking, we also see them disappear. So, to amend a previous statement: yes, the poem is full of evidence that the poet has lived. But it’s also evidence that she is disappearing, too." |
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