Natalie Staples Interviews Gabrielle Bates
"Maybe poetry, for me, is always some sort of dialogue with a much younger self, an attempt to reckon and reconcile with her, or the parts of her I still feel I carry with me. Perhaps, also, animals are a way to try to leave her behind, to give her companions for her journeying separate from mine. I am not totally sure how animals became such an inextricable part of my poetics, but the obsession with animals feels related to childhood as a mentality, as a wellspring of questions."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Hua Xi on Language as Form
"Each stanza introduces a new scene and in doing so, a new plane of thought. Sipping tea, the necessity of money. caves, arteries….appear in turn. Each of these subjects raise new questions, but in continuation with each other, like the formation of some secret pattern. There is something in the poem which 'touches itself everywhere at once,' as Kapil writes, a preponderance of edges but not jagged or sharp ones." |
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