What Sparks Poetry:
Alina Stefanescu on Language as Form
"Gaps are loud: they announce an absence. I love thinking about how absences are announced. In Wolf's lyric serialism, the fragments reveal their constraints: they recombine to offer a speaker starved of affection or tenderness. The absence is announced through sparsity. Other absences are announced through excess, as in accumulations of descriptions where the accretion reveals that something is missing." |
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Review of Good Monster by Diannely Antigua
"Good Monster quickly establishes a unique, haunting tone that tricks the reader into believing the speakers are almost indifferent to the traumas they describe. Antigua effectively uses this tone to set up surprising and brilliant revelations across nearly every poem.
viaTHE POETRY QUESTION |
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