Elisa Gonzalez: "Solmaz Sharif Refuses to Fill in the Gaps"
"The metaphor of a customs checkpoint may be a deliberate misdirection in a collection of poems that is also guided by doors and passages: between memory and forgetting; between the living and the dead; between the language in which one writes and the language in which one laments; between the poet's real life and the poet's 'imagined life crying hot in my ear.' The porousness of these portals seems never-ending."
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What Sparks Poetry:
fahima ife (New Orleans) on Ecopoetry Now"That I required a desert to write poetry of the swamp. I open another poetry collection, wander inside the wet density of word, step outside world as we know it. As if poets hold access to the mycelial inner-dimensionalities of Earth as we continue singing in its wake. Something about lack of old forest in the DeepSouth—as you say: the woods here are less than one-hundred years old, on a billions of years old planet, in a newly-contested country, written in the lineage of descent." |
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