What Sparks Poetry:
Lloyd Wallace on Language as Form
"As the poet attempts to bring their past into the present, into the poetic medium, attempting to make it a keepable artifact, we can see it being buried by the world, by outer artifice, just as the past is buried by the present. The key pathos—the beauty—of this poem is that as we see the poet speaking, we also see them disappear. So, to amend a previous statement: yes, the poem is full of evidence that the poet has lived. But it’s also evidence that she is disappearing, too." |
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Chloe Xiang Reviews Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali
"Ali’s poems wield lyrical craft to extricate her faith from patriarchy’s contradictory and oppressive influence on religion and history. With Theophanies, Ali celebrates the mother line as something that rebels against the confinements of narrow belief systems and resists the inclination for women to be written out."
viaHARVARD REVIEW |
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