“Thin Attachment” considers human belonging and alienation, connection and separatism, asking: Who has right-of-way? What does it mean to inhabit? Who is driving—and for what? What is holding—and to what?
Human women in the streetscape: blatant and halting.
Desert and Monsoon: subject to their own laws.
The monsoon delivers about half of the 12.5 inches of annual rainfall to the Sonoran Desert.
Deluging, drenching: the great equalizer.
Jami Macarty on "Thin Attachment" |
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"Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s Poetry of Attention"
"I suppose there’s a private music to each person’s writing, and mine involves an extended line. I have a naturally expansive way of thinking, and that fits with the wide horizons of northern New Mexico, where I live. One possibility is that I extend as long as I can, before a sentence breaks of its own weight, and I start again."
via THE YALE REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Charles Baxter on Theodore Roethke's "The Meadow Mouse"
"When a poem begins to pile up the similes, comparing an object to multiple other objects, there’s going to be trouble. Multiple similes signify instability. An emotional shift is likely to take place, a disappearance or a metamorphosis. What we get in the second part of 'The Meadow Mouse' is a disappearance." |
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We oppose racism, oppression, and police brutality.
We will continue to amplify diverse voices in the poetry world. Black Lives Matter. |
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