Among the things I remember about visiting Nagasaki (in 2011) was that there was a woman selling ice cream at ground zero (the atomic bomb detonation point). She had a small metal cart, a tall stack of cones, and was selling one flavor: rose water. I will never forget how, at the site where the US murdered 70,000 people in an instant, everyone was enjoying an ice cream.
Brandon Shimoda on "Rest Houses" |
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Interview with Diana Khoi Nguyen
"I’m never trying to write a book per se, I’m just working on separate poems, and my poems tend to be long sequences over years. Then after a certain point – a certain number of years – I kind of realize I’ve accumulated a lot around a certain topic, and then I just print everything out. I look to see, ‘Do these gather together?’ It’s kind of like making a playlist in a sort."
viaDAILY BRUIN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Orchid Tierney on "a field guide to future flora"
"however distributed vegetal cognition is, plants are nonetheless remarkable sensing and sensate beings, who invite speculation as to who we—the weirdos of this world—are if we are not already communal thinkers. so: to look upon a plant with an appreciation that its own mind is radically different is a terse exercise in the acceptance of its unknowability." |
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