Steeped in rhapsody; epic, musical improvisation, jazzing shuffle, juncture, confluence—the running compilation tricks out love and accountability, indictment, beautiful and terrible peril in lived and found in unfolding knowledge, knowing, in standing for what's at-stake, at-risk, endangered in the violence of over-resourcing abusive societal culture.
All the while insisting on engagement in incredible beauty, glory, precise and stumbled nature—plant, animal, planet, outer realm—for the love. A deeper reveal, intimate opening, in our shared vulnerability and ever-rising strength.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke on "Look at This Blue" |
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"An Interview with Sun Yung Shin"
"I can’t remember why I started looking at the journal of Columbus, other than I am always trying to get closer to events of the past, and I wanted to read what he wrote (or reconstructions of what he wrote). I see part of my job as an (involuntary) immigrant and settler as working to understand the mechanisms of colonialism; as a naturalized U.S. citizen, I see it as my obligation to understand the origins and workings of empire."
via SOUTHEAST REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Andrew Zawacki on Sébastien Smirou's "The Lion"
"The orthodox part of the evening once completed, we turned to our current project—very much under construction—namely, the English translation of Sébastien’s sophomore book, a bestiary titled Beau voir....The plan was Sébastien’s, inspired tangentially by the so-called 'torture test' that Olivier Cadiot and Pierre Alferi had devised, which involved translating Robert Duncan’s falconer-mother back and forth between English and French, so the original would bloom anew through its successive degradations." |
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