What Sparks Poetry:
Keene Carter on Susan Stewart's Cinder
"'Bees' is a wonderfully successful poem, as is the book Columbarium and indeed all of Cinder. I've pried into it a little because of its success, which is, as I've tried to show, tied directly to its 'failure'—a 'failure' in quotation marks because it is the failure to represent everything, and that's like calling death a failure of life: the requirement is absurd, even if the sentence is true." |
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Peggy Ellsberg on Lisa Russ Spaar's Madrigalia: New and Selected Poems
"Offering a personal take on universal experience, Spaar's poems attract us to a world where even stones and trees and artifacts have lives of their own, where we encounter the familiar shock-state of private failure, where we resonate with the quintessential facts and activities of humanity, like farming or fishing, surviving or dying. Generously, Spaar's poetry catches and releases all that emanates from the universe."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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