Review of Tomasz Różycki’s To the Letter
"The poem’s associative structure reflects a mind half-submerged in its contents; its opening quietly embodies the psychological perceptiveness and sensitivity within which such meditations may take place: 'So many caverns in the body, chambers / abandoned once and for all, darkened corners.' Suppressing such shadowy associations of death can indulge fantasies of both authority and rebellion."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Juliana Spahr on "Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache"
"Humans do not show up until the eighth section of sixteen. The chant is enumerative, but not merely enumerative. In the list of flora and fauna that the Kumulipo includes, humans come after birds, bats, and fish and before octopus, coral, and eel. I know of almost no examples of a poem with such an ecosystem, such a hope, such a possibility, such a reminder. And if I had to start to try to figure out what poetry is in this moment of ecological crisis, I might start there." |
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