"Sand, Pigeon Feathers, Sorrows, and Names"
"Olzmann reifies definitions, and then bends them, similar to the way a constellation, viewed from earth, appears to form a coherent figure in the sky. In these poems, Olzmann follows narrative along known routes to unfamiliar destinations, often with side trips and digressions. The book’s title reveals both a pattern (a constellation)—if you can find one—and a set of directions (a route)—if you can follow it."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Cindy Juyoung Ok on Kim Hyesoon's "After All the Birds Have Gone"
"Stanzas and whole poems refuse the unit of the sentence, creating new syntax and refusing to designate themselves relevant to the constructs of past, present, or future. Kim’s is a poetry of present aftermath—of the annihilation absolute but not completed, of the past yet also ongoing. Although the source text of 'After All the Birds Have Gone' is in the present tense, its frame of reference is of survival, invoking the past, while the implied conditional hints at the future." |
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