As we speak the James Webb telescope is rattling all present notion of the agreed upon Big Bang origination. As related "In a Pitch Dark Sailing House" its energy flashes upon elliptical gradients of improbable formation that emanates via auditory formation analogous to our sense of sight as it glares from tenebrous expanse. The poem implies collective nutrient that remains ubiquitous via pre-human energy in origin. Thus the Enlightenment within its contemporary stasis senses itself as super-imposed mechanism that has only amplified during the latter realm of the Anthropocene. Thus poetry begins to apply itself by igniting unanswerable lingual animation. It therefore probes a destiny that can no longer be claimed by the principle mental state kindled as it is by static suggestion that seems to be transmuted from noncognitive irrigation generated across the ending portion from the last line when I objectively utter at its close "... how astonishment boils."Will Alexander on "In a Pitch Dark Sailing House" |
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Ada Limón Celebrates Nature and Human Connection
"One of the things that I think about is that we often don't realize how many animals are around us at all times, whether it's the ants on the kitchen table or the bunnies in the backyard or the fox that comes and goes. The witnessing of those animals helps me to remember that I am an animal. That gives me a sense of being connected to something larger. That gives me a more holistic view of my relationship to the world."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Tiana Nobile on A. Van Jordan's M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems
"By juxtaposing the MacNolia narrative poems with snapshots of historical figures, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A considers the ways in which racism shaped Black daily existence and one individual’s life’s trajectory. Thus, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A is not only a story of one disenchanted woman or crushed little girl; it is the story of a generation. Jordan pushes me to think about how language impacts history, meaning, and people’s lived experiences." |
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