"Kit Fan On Elegy, Nostalgia And Poetry Versus Prose"
"Prose and poetry are pieces of the same jigsaw; they are conjoined as one entity yet also a fragment of a whole picture. Prose thrives on the illusion of continuity, whereas poetry plays up the card of fragmentation. When I write novels, I start with a fragment of a person, a thought, a conversation, or a place, and rebuild them bit by bit into a world. When I write poems, I break a world into pieces and glue them back together into a memory. Both are violent acts."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Toby Altman on Other Arts
"Being with these buildings, studying them, touching the rough grains of the concrete—it changes something. I learned a new way of seeing. Surfaces stopped receding. I saw the textures, the way that buildings were made. I started looking at architecture, rather than through it. This is one thing poetry can do for you: it can teach you to look at the world again." |
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