This selection (in English translation) of Gloria Gervitz's monumental poem, "Migraciones," is representative of her 260-page opus—and isn't. As with her portrayal of female eroticism, Gervitz's use of the word "and," that non-hierarchical creator of endless, insubordinate clauses, to join one image with another (and another and another!) reflects her project to create a gynocentric linguistic space in which her oracular poem could emerge. Her trance-like lines, though, are often shorter and sparer. Read her whole poem to see! Mark Schafer on "Migrations" |
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"Poem of the Week: 'Reflection' by Peter Scupham"
"'Reflection' is from Invitation to View by Peter Scupham (1933-2022), a collection in which perception often trembles on the edge of the liminal. What isn't quite present haunts the physical abundance of long life, art, friendship and marriage—all celebrated but sensed as evanescent in a collection the poet foresaw was to be his last. In this sonnet-like poem, the protagonist, described in the third person, looks back on a particular 'high summer.' The pace is suitably leisurely."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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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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