This poem is part of an ongoing cycle—"From a Winter Notebook"—which plays on traditional winter themes of stasis, aging, lost love, belatedness, dormancy, and decline. Selections from the series have appeared in various journals and in the chapbooks From a Winter Notebook (Alder & Frankia) and Dead Winter (Fonograf). The poems' formal constraints and thematic concerns have been discussed by David Brazil in a review at Cleveland Review of Books.
Matvei Yankelevich on "[Tuesday: how to go on writing warm words in round rain?]" |
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"The Best Recent Poetry – Review Roundup"
"'Bones can speak long after the flesh has gone.' Victoria Adukwei Bulley's debut is an exploration of the power of silence as a means of resistance, a way of carving space for the self in a hostile world. Rooted in Black feminist thinking, the poems have a clear-eyed elegance, buttressed with a controlled ferocity that is acute on the damage done by institutional blankness, and how it forces an uncomfortable conformity."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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Leah Nieboer on Hillary Gravendyk's Harm
"I keep reading it because it makes me desire its inevitable cyborgs and monsters, its palpitated time-signatures, its 'pink dreaming riot.' I, too, want to get weaved in. Or—I am already weaved in, and desire a present, and future, that is livable with, and inclusive of, a chronic error-measure. Give me less of that narrative 'cure' imposed 'across an abrupt jumble of absences' and more of this speculative wildness." |
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