Working on Ye Lijun’s poems is an intimate experience that refreshes my relationship with solitude, while practicing distance with social constructs. Here, Ye recalls her years in a small mountain town, not with nostagia or regret, but with a lesson learned, “The farther I live / the clearer I know . . . / real learning does not begin at school.” Moving on buries not past errors: it humbles one before the unknown. Fiona Sze-Lorrain on "Memories of a Small Town" |
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"Shakespeare’s Hal has Excused Royal Heirs for Centuries""'From Frederick in the early 18th century to Charles in our own, a series of princes of Wales have associated themselves with Shakespeare’s Prince Hal as a way to excuse youthful excesses and promise strong future leadership, according to a new exhibition exploring the relationship between Shakespeare’s works and the royal family.” via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:Vivek Narayanan on Jee Leong Koh's Snow at 5 PM"Koh's work in some moments can seem disarmingly simple, even if always rigorous in its language, lighting on the ordinary, but as you delve further it reveals a rich intelligence, omnivorous and cosmopolitan in its influences, balancing its interests in high and low, the cerebral and the bodily, the experimental and the straight, narrative and ellipsis." |
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