"Second Act: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry"
"Zero at the Bone contended with loneliness and longing—for love, for belonging, the (im)possibilities of erotic intimacy—and these preoccupations carry over into Each Luminous Thing with fresh urgency as the speaker falls into helpless and seismic unconditional love with the three daughters whom she must protect and nurture as best she can."
viaTHE ADROIT JOURNAL |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sandra Lim on "Black Box"
"My poem, 'Black Box,' is beguiled by the metaphor of the black box as a way to broach the world, the people around us, and our own hearts. Part of that beguilement also has to do with the very limits of the black box metaphor itself; conceptual orderliness of a certain way of thinking can imprison us in a limiting framework—the black box is itself a black box. One way out of this is to construct more conceptual frameworks with horizons of possibility going far beyond what we hold to be true, or at least, visible." |
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