"This Body, This Rapture": Bracho and Gervitz Explore the Mysteries of Inner Experience
"Perhaps what contemporary avant-garde US and Latin American poets share above all is a desire to carry on the legacy of modernism while doing away with its ideological pretensions, its belief in a grand narrative. In that sense, Bracho and Gervitz are exemplary. One a miniaturist and the other a maximalist, one serene and the other turbulent, they illustrate how the mystery of embodiment can be plumbed in poetry."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Felicia Zamora on Threa Almontaser's The Wild Fox of Yemen
"I keep returning to 'Heritage Emissary.' The work of this poem cores me. The couplets mimic tensions throughout the entire book with the push/pull of play and intense difficulty juxtaposed. The pluralities of being for multilingual individuals become verb—as in 'When I Arabic my way/ towards them'—and we continue to see the stitch/wound paradox for the voice in, 'I long to play a song that doesn't terrorize,/ a song that's understood.'" |
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