A Poem and Conversation with Hua Xi
"I am really interested in interiority. When I started writing poems, they were just for me, for a long time, and they gave me a space to work through things, investigate and interrogate things within myself that I felt I didn’t have space to do in public spaces, or within my family spaces. That’s what made poetry really meaningful to me. So, I think in all my poems, including 'The Past Still Needs Me,' 'The Painting,' and many others, I’m trying to give a voice to all the little meandering thoughts that I would probably never say out loud."
via THE HOPKINS REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Johannes Göransson on Ann Jäderlund's [Not here]
"The influence between texts seems to flow in mulitple, volatile, anachronistic directions. It’s perhaps even wrong for me to say that the poems are based on Celan’s and Bachmann’s correspondence. The correspondence is one source, but from these letters, Jäderlund’s poetry is brought into contact with Hölderlin, Heidegger, Shakespeare, Rilke and others. Like Manny Farber’s infamous concept of 'termite art,' Jäderlund’s writing 'goes always forward eating its own boundaries.'" |
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