"Short Conversations with Poets: Peter Cole"
"That’s pretty wild—that basal sense of language-longing and desire for relation, as well as the Song-like swarm at the heart of continuous making. And, strange as it might sound, it’s also at the core of almost everything that matters to me about poetry, period, and certainly the poems of this book, where the alphabets of various languages meet and mediums translate experience."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Deborah Woodard on Amelia Rosselli's "The Dragonfly"
"What I hope comes through in my and Roberta Antognini’s translation of this passage is the obsessive insistence with which Rosselli demands we search for and find Ortensia, and how equally insistently the text embodies a desire that is somehow delicate, hermetic and insatiable by turns. Rosselli takes the onanistic, gratingly abrupt though brilliant original and gives it a brand new lyrical body along with a new subjectivity to inhabit that body." |
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