"A Conversation with Linda Gregerson"
"Once I learned how to write at all, rather than merely floundering, I found that a poem can start virtually anywhere: with a fragment of overheard speech, a headline in the local newspaper, the sight of a child being carried on her father's shoulders, a fragment of guilt I've tried for years to bury. Sometimes I long to capture something I've encountered in that gorgeous, ephemeral present-tense of the theater—the turn of an actor's head, an ingenious use of stage prop, etc."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Elisa Díaz Castelo on Dolores Dorantes' Copy
"These fragmented definitions, along with other phrases, iterate over and over in her poems. Are, indeed, copied. In its use of permutation, these poems seem to be written in the tradition of the pantoum or the villanelle. The obsessive repetition distinctive to those forms haunts Dorantes' work, but also the same mysterious and almost imperceptible progress, the piecemeal transformation of meaning." |
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