What Sparks Poetry:
Jody Gladding on Marie-Claire Bancquart 's [—What did you say? Lost empires,]
"Bancquart’s poems are spare, grounded, and, for all their attention to demise, surprisingly light. Just the thing for a pandemic. This poem with its 'lost empires' and 'catastrophes' counterbalanced by a shrinking soap bar seemed particularly suited to the moment. I was struck by Bancquart’s vertiginous shifts in scope/scale, producing the same effect they do in cartoons—making us laugh." |
|
|
"A Conversation with Harmony Holiday"
"But Hollywood Forever felt very reactionary. And for this book I thought: 'I don’t want to be reactionary. I just want to feel into what the hell is going on with me or with a particular set of catastrophes.' I wanted to pierce catastrophe with music and not use the archival spirit to intervene as much on where past and present blur."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
