Danez Smith's "Poems of Brilliance and Beauty"
"Among the lies Smith wants us to recognize is slavery, which the Dutch once pursued as a commercial venture with virulent acuity. In Bluff, however, that’s not an endpoint but a place to start. Dayton’s Bluff, after all, is a neighborhood in Smith’s home city of St. Paul, Minn., named for speculator Lyman Dayton, who, during the 1850s, developed the location after the Dakota peoples who had once lived there were displaced."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Johannes Göransson on Ann Jäderlund's [Not here]
"The influence between texts seems to flow in mulitple, volatile, anachronistic directions. It’s perhaps even wrong for me to say that the poems are based on Celan’s and Bachmann’s correspondence. The correspondence is one source, but from these letters, Jäderlund’s poetry is brought into contact with Hölderlin, Heidegger, Shakespeare, Rilke and others. Like Manny Farber’s infamous concept of 'termite art,' Jäderlund’s writing 'goes always forward eating its own boundaries.'" |
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