Throughout the pandemic, Bruce and I passed poems back and forth, an experiment in poetic ethics of a kind, how one poem can listen to another and build itself out of a sense of primary responsibility to the other’s voice. The echo of such attention can be felt here—melancholy’s black bile, the black bear, the loose sense of call and response.
Dan Beachy-Quick on "4:" and ":4" |
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Ten Years After The Death of Seamus Heaney
"The generosity and warmth of the poet as a public figure is, of course, one of the reasons why he was and is beloved by many—not least those who, in huge numbers, encountered him in person through a lifetime of lectures, readings, workshops and launches. He once joked that one day his unsigned books would be more valuable."
via THE CONVERSATION |
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What Sparks Poetry:
J. Michael Martinez on Reading Prose
"I wanted to understand its syntactic logic of worlding, and, so, I mirrored Angello's process: in my work, I chose to meditate, word by word, on the chorus of Ritchie Valens' "We Belong Together." The prose poem sequence that emerged became a structuring force for the book as a whole; the sequence's prose ruminations on temporality, the body, and love, spread out across the book, acted as scaffolds to Tarta Americana's overarching themes." |
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