On Jane Huffman's Public Abstract
"Fear, illness, reticence, love, grief, uncertainty—Couldn't this be the abstracted story of most lives? In Huffman's hands, however, these familiar feelings become a web of language that lulls the reader into a type of hypnotic state, one full of music and emotion and, yes, beauty. Huffman is a poet with a distinctive voice that can carry the weight of its ancestry and create something completely new and surprising."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Nathan Spoon on Language as Form
"'I Have a Vision for My Poems' belongs to a series of Sylvia Plath found poems Nazifa Islam is writing 'to dissect, examine, and explore the bipolar experience.' The poem exemplifies how Islam is using this series to openly connect with a disabled ancestor, which is important because, while various cognitive disabilities have probably existed as long as humans have, the language to frame and see them as distinct embodiments and identities has not." |
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