'The Senator' used to be titled 'Redefining Rape' after a 2010 bill was brought to the House floor that would have restricted both the definition of rape and a woman's ability to seek an abortion.
Lisa Hiton on "The Senator" |
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"The Best Poetry of 2021"
On Michael Palmer's Little Elegies for Sister Satan, Elisa Gabbert writes, "It was a good year for our older poets, with new books by legends like Frank Bidart and Louise Glück, and this, with its stunning first sequence of elegies that call to mind Rilke, Celan, Inger Christensen—there’s a way that even poetry written in one’s native tongue already feels translated, as though the language of the mind were always foreign."
THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evie Shockley on Jayne Cortez' "There It Is"
"Cortez’s trademark use of enumeratio—a rhetorical device that builds the force of an argument by offering detailed lists of the parts, causes, or effects of an issue—drives home the ruthlessness of this class of people: “They will try to exploit you / absorb you confine you / disconnect you isolate you / or kill you.” Enumeratio forms the poem’s fundamental structure." |
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