This poem begins the body of my collection, "We Borrowed Gentleness." I placed it there because of how the philosophical, political, and familial click into place with one another. Our lives continually present us with obvious and subtle moments of allegory. Unpacking that allegorical richness in a way that still makes room for mystery and uncertainty is one of the difficult tasks of poetry. I hope I do so here.
J. Estanislao Lopez on "Independence Day in West Texas" |
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"On Antonio Gamoneda’s Book of the Cold"
"With his echo of Virgil’s Georgics in the title of the first section, Gamoneda writes, 'Sometimes I see the mountain radiance above the great sadness machines,' and furthermore, 'Immensity is short on meaning below the silent eagles.' These two excerpts create a tension that is central to the book. The radiance is dimmed by the materialistic view of the world, the faith in machines, technology and the false idea that history is progressive."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Deborah Woodard on Amelia Rosselli's "The Dragonfly"
"What I hope comes through in my and Roberta Antognini’s translation of this passage is the obsessive insistence with which Rosselli demands we search for and find Ortensia, and how equally insistently the text embodies a desire that is somehow delicate, hermetic and insatiable by turns. Rosselli takes the onanistic, gratingly abrupt though brilliant original and gives it a brand new lyrical body along with a new subjectivity to inhabit that body." |
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