I wrote this poem years after having left the cadaver lab—being too close to the experience made it impossible to look at it directly. And I’m thankful for this. If I had written as the lab transpired, I think I would have been too myopic in focusing on the awfulness of the experience. Time introduced humor and love and humanity back into that part of my life.
Eric Tran on "Cadaver Lab" |
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"Short Conversations with Poets: Adrian Matejka"
"Music initiates the verse, which activates the body, which then creates more music in the form of poetry. I love revision, but I love improvisation even more. I try to let the circuit that poetry creates—between all of the things I am, have forgotten, and wish I could be—remain unbroken during the act of writing."
via MCSWEENEY'S |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Eugene Ostashevsky on Vasily Kamensky's “Constantinople"
"The Cubist language of the poem imposes cuts on words, fractures them into planes by repetition and variation, and recombines parts of words to build other words. Although the poem lacks a single order of reading—nor do we have evidence that Kamensky ever performed it out loud—it pulsates with sound repetitions. Repetitions convert its word lists into the sonic counterparts of Cubist planes, with each word turning into a formal variation of the one above it." |
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