Classical music was everywhere in my childhood. My father would sit down at his Steinway piano and disappear into another world. He was often accompanied by my mother, a professional cellist, my sister, a child-star soprano, and my brother, a child-prodigy violinist. During these practice sessions, I would lie beneath the piano and watch them perform. I often wondered why I hadn’t been blessed with a musical gift, but I soon learned that my role was to observe and write about what I saw.
Jodie Hollander on "Blue Rhapsody" |
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Roger Reeves talks with Francis Fisher for AGNI
"Through my experience of fatherhood, I became very unsettled with my earlier ideas of beauty. I became quieter as a poet because I was watching this child just be herself. It was amazing to just watch her be herself and for that to be beautiful. She wasn’t trying to form any thoughts or articulate any ideas, she was beautiful just by being, and I wanted to write a poem that could touch that or come close to it."
via AGNI |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lloyd Wallace on Charles Simic's The World Doesn’t End
"It’s days like this that I get most upset that I will one day die. It’s also days like this I feel most fortunate to have a book like Charles Simic’s The World Doesn’t End to carry with me through my days—a book which, for all the violence it contains, all the liquid strangeness, all the pain, has always seemed to me to look at death with a steady, if somewhat smoky, optimism." |
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