An Interview with Elisa Gonzalez
"To write I often have to trick myself back into a playfulness in which nothing matters. Later, writing poetry became a place to speak secret thoughts that couldn't be stated openly in my family. The play and the secrecy connect in that they require an imagined reader who will accept anything. A blank who loves me, I guess, which isn't how any real person is."
via THE YALE REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Dumanis on Language as Form
"What determines the facts in question is the language, as well as the constraints I place on myself as an author. This is an autobiography that is not capable of ever saying 'I' or 'me' or 'mine,' as no words it uses can begin with any letter other than A. As a result, the poem is composed almost exclusively of sentence fragments." |
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