"The Poet's Nightstand with Kiki Petrosino"
"But in The Renunciations, nothing in language remains fixed: apologies fold back into denials; letters fill up with secrets; and violent histories become divine oracles for an exploratory speaker. This work shows me how to reckon, really reckon, in poetry. Kelly builds capacious, energetic structures to hold language as it emerges from the most devastating wounds of human experience."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Felicia Zamora on Threa Almontaser's The Wild Fox of Yemen
"I keep returning to 'Heritage Emissary.' The work of this poem cores me. The couplets mimic tensions throughout the entire book with the push/pull of play and intense difficulty juxtaposed. The pluralities of being for multilingual individuals become verb—as in 'When I Arabic my way/ towards them'—and we continue to see the stitch/wound paradox for the voice in, 'I long to play a song that doesn't terrorize,/ a song that's understood.'" |
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