"Surrealistic Zillow": On Mathias Svalina's Walking Tours
"He characterizes the tours as having 'little roots in facts [that] grow into unfactual strawberry bushes,' he says. This seems true of all the history we’ve ever been told. Even those historical highway markers are just one part of one story, one event or building chosen over another. So how does Svalina choose his? .... 'It’s a little bit trying to connect with the actual history of the neighborhoods and a little bit unearthing stuff from what people walk by and don’t look at.' And it’s a little bit emo, he says."
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What Sparks Poetry:
G. C. Waldrep on Ecopoetry Now
"For me as a poet there’s a joy in sheer description, as there is also an excitement in the act of address....Description is always an act of translation. And in so doing propose, to some notional reader, that something could be shared. To address, meaning to conjure that notional reader (or auditor) explicitly, via deixis: you. You there. Not you, but you. You, defined as whatever or whomever the poem is addressing. Sometimes I think 'you' is the most complicated word in the English language. 'You' is always a revelation to me." |
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