"Line Breaks, Ambivalence, Simultaneity"
Marianne Chan probes Robert Creely's "The Language." "I’ve always thought of line breaks as the poem’s body language. Words might come out of the poem’s mouth, but the positioning and the arrangement of those words express their own truths. Sometimes poems tell you exactly what they mean with little ambiguity, but other times, a poem is saying 'I love you' with her arms crossed, shoulders turned away."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Kleber-Diggs on Sun Yung Shin's The Wet Hex
"Here’s what I didn’t even actually notice until I’d completed both laps through The Wet Hex—at a certain point I put my pencil down. I fell away from concern for craft and entered the poet’s world. For quite a while there, I forgot to think and felt my way through instead—guided by an expert, open." |
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