"On Puzzling the Route to a Poem"
Poet Lauren Camp talks about the liberation she finds in revising her work. "Revision, the way I choose to do it, rarely hews close to the existing text. When I return to the work after some time has passed, I’ve filled my brain with other books, music, storylines, news bits. The season has changed, and my mood. I want to push the work in some new direction. I stretch and tighten the work, reading it aloud again. Sometimes, when I look back at the many drafts I’ve done, I’m amazed at how far I’ve veered from the course I initially set."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jody Gladding on René Char's The Brittle Age and Returning Upland
"There are other more comprehensive volumes of Char’s work in translation....But this one offers a wonderful bookness. There’s an integrity to the object, the physical form with the page as its basic unit, the short poems set in that space, nothing to distract me as I turn the page, or don’t. It fits in the hand, rests on a shelf, travels in a pack." |
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