This poem works with a drawing of the elevation of Louis Sullivan’s Carson, Pirie Scott Store (1899-1906) in Chicago. (The building is also known as the Schlesinger and Mayer Store, the Sullivan Center, and, recently, Goth Target). Like many of Sullivan’s buildings, it is overwhelmingly ornamented. Yet as the eye travels up the façade, the details of that ornament begin to dissolve. One sees that—not what—it is.
Toby Altman on "from Jewel Box" |
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"Literary MagNet: Aurielle Marie"
"The final collection, which went on to win the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is a swirl of texts and voices, with visually inventive typography and poems, some featuring words cascading down the page, layered on top of one another, or pushing beyond the margins. The book subverts and refuses form—'there ain’t / no word to call this what it is,' writes Marie."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dana Levin on Emily Kendal Frey's Lovability
"In Lovability, poem after poem seeks discernment against this agony, to untangle the sticky web of the imagined, the hoped for, the dreaded, the real, and encounter each unbraced. Perhaps this is the only project that matters. Perhaps it’s one of the most difficult things a person undergoes: the dismantling of dream, assumption, expectation, prejudice, in order to see clearly and honestly." |
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