What Sparks Poetry:
Matt Broaddus on Building Community
"A major interest of mine, in terms of bringing in historical reference, is just trying to acknowledge that where I am is not the be-all-end-all and won’t be the be-all-end-all. What I mean by that is that where I’m writing from is just a blip, you know, and my writing and my literary self on the page is in many ways an outgrowth of historical forces that are beyond my control. I think that one way I can feel like my art is engaging with these forces is to write about them and to move the past into the present." |
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"On Jaia Hamid Bashir’s Desire/Halves"
"In Desire/Halves, the alluring and unruly ways of memory imbue the speaker with the logic of one who has been torn and cleaved from somewhere wandering a plane of recognition, of Aristophanes’s halved lover recognizing a matching half in vivid images of fruit, the eyes of impossible animals, and the arrivals of moons. Desire is a self made vast, a 'godstorm.'"
via POETRY NORTHWEST |
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