What Sparks Poetry:
Siddhartha Menon on Drafts
"'Captivity' is true to the surface facts that it describes. Through the encounter with an unheeding bird, it is about the dichotomy between a full experiencing of something and the urge to record it by means of a camera—or, for that matter, to pin it down in real time through words, through labels. Does the capturing of experience come in the way of experience? Does the holding of something in posterity, or the attempt to do so, interfere with experiencing it in the quick? These are not rhetorical questions." |
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Oliver Baez Bendorf: "Dispatch from a Poet in Exile"
"There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this plainly, without metaphor or embellishment. The reality of it has stripped even language of its usual protections. The event outpaced any craft or device. What remains is a truth spoken aloud to no one and everyone: I have left."
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