The poems in "Variations on Dawn and Dusk" seek to be an imitation so deep they becomes a form of participation in Robert Irwin’s “Untitled” in Marfa, TX. The poems are small replications, at least they are in my mind, of the squares of sunlight fallen on the concrete floor when I visited the building: 36 windows, so 36 poems, and 2 passages linking the 2 sides of the building. These poems occur at the transition from the dawn side of the building (painted bright white) and the dusk side (painted gray).
Dan Beachy-Quick on Variations on Dawn and Dusk |
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"There's a Quiet All Over the World"
Cheryl Strayed and Billy Collins discuss poetry, silence and the present moment. Collins muses that, "A poem about the virus might be an image of just a face mask on a curb, a discarded face mask. Just that one thing might be enough to tell the whole story."
viaTHE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Allison Cobb on Theodore Roethke's "I Knew a Woman"
"I encountered Theodore Roethke’s 'I Knew a Woman' in my teacher Rebecca Shankland’s high school English class. We read it alongside Wallace Stevens’ 'Emperor of Ice Cream.' These were probably the first two poems I had read from the twentieth century. They made poetry seem a living possibility to me, not something entombed in the past." |
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