"One-Legged Bird"
"The loneliness that drenches Burying the Mountain derives from rejection and alienation, but also from portent. '[The] border,' Fang declares, 'is the beauty we live for. Is closest to our ruin.' For a writer so committed to appreciation of high art, ruin may be the dulling of beloved artworks or encroachment by sociopolitical realities."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jody Gladding on Marie-Claire Bancquart 's [—What did you say? Lost empires,]
"Bancquart’s poems are spare, grounded, and, for all their attention to demise, surprisingly light. Just the thing for a pandemic. This poem with its 'lost empires' and 'catastrophes' counterbalanced by a shrinking soap bar seemed particularly suited to the moment. I was struck by Bancquart’s vertiginous shifts in scope/scale, producing the same effect they do in cartoons—making us laugh." |
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