"A Conversation with Victoria Chang"
"While I was writing these poems, I very much felt like I was outside of time or maybe inside time? Time was certainly not linear. The complications of the syllabics also forced the poems to leap even more than usual (during the writing process, at least). I think my poems might tend to leap a bit anyway, but the syllabics and the titles served as a kind of leash to the poems."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Donald Revell on James Longenbach's Forever
"To read the poems gathered as Forever is to walk beside Jim Longenbach along the banks of Lethe. We know the place, having been here before, with Dante in the most beautiful cantos of his Purgatorio. We remember its perils—the perils of oblivion and forgetfulness. And we remember its allures—the garden on the farther shore and a reunion there with the unforgettable. But something has changed. Somehow, Longenbach has prepared an estate for us along the water’s edge." |
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