"A Conversation with Shangyang Fang"
"Those paintings and mythologies are materials of the poems, but also some become the forms that give lives to expression. I had the first two lines of the poem 'Argument of Situations' long before the poem was written. I tried several drafts and all of them failed. Then, I saw the Song dynasty painter Fan Kuan's work at a museum in Beijing. All of a sudden, I felt the unwritten poem inside me echoing with this painting in front of me."
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What Sparks Poetry:
fahima ife (New Orleans) on Ecopoetry Now
"That I required a desert to write poetry of the swamp. I open another poetry collection, wander inside the wet density of word, step outside world as we know it. As if poets hold access to the mycelial inner-dimensionalities of Earth as we continue singing in its wake. Something about lack of old forest in the DeepSouth—as you say: the woods here are less than one-hundred years old, on a billions of years old planet, in a newly-contested country, written in the lineage of descent." |
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