Joyelle McSweeney Reviews Monica Youn's From From
"The perniciousness of racist doublespeak and the trick-mirror of double consciousness is reflected in a pattern of doubles in Youn’s book, starting with the title itself. The volume opens with a series of double exposures that work like an optometrist’s exam, bringing their paired subjects into and out of nearness and likeness, studies of Orpheus and Eurydice, Midas and Marigold, Echo and Narcissus."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jennifer Atkinson on "Landscape with Jeffers and the Connecticut River"
"But how do we live with our knowledge and the emotional cloud of fear, guilt, anger, grief, and helplessness, a cloud that surrounds us, each of us alone, and all of us together? That cloud has become intrinsic to my ecopoetical work. Burdened with the beauty and loss and malicious awfulness ahead, weighted with the anxiety that hits whenever a winter day dawns without frost on the ground or another 'unprecedented' downpour rings in the gutter, how do I live?" |
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