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Luther Hughes on "Near Sacrament"
"I wrote this poem during my second year at Cave Canem. During that week, I announced that my book—an earlier version of A Shiver in the Leaves—was 'finished,' and I wanted to start focusing on love poems for a possible second book. That entire week, I wrote love poems about my boyfriend."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Christine De Luca on Jidi Majia’s “The Enduring One”
"Reading the poem I was given, ‘The Enduring One’, I sensed a flavour of the Old Testament books of Genesis and Proverbs, of Norse sagas, of the Finnish Origin stories as told in the Kalevala. There was the same sensual lyricism, the fabulous nature of the tales and the sheer urgency of telling. Also the sense of long kinship, the importance of genealogy and the need to remember, especially heroic forebears." |
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