Interview with Danez Smith
"I’ve never been much of a poet of place, but there’s a lot of Minnesota and Minneapolis and St. Paul in this book. In my teens and twenties, I tried to convince myself that I was a nomad. It’s hard to tell where things are happening in my first couple of books, outside of a vague sense of America."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jonathan Skinner on "Unfolder"
"I suppose the poem downplays metamorphosis, and all its metaphorical associations, compressing the monarch’s ontogeny, from egg to larva or caterpillar molting through its instars eating their own shed skin to pupal stage with its cremaster to chrysalis and finally butterfly, into one stanza, like those time-lapse photography films we all watched in school. Instead, 'Unfolder' dilates on the risky moment of sexual encounter." |
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