"Bianca Stone Isn’t Afraid of Going Deep"
"Bianca, who became Vermont's 10th poet laureate last month, has made an art of spelunking into the grottoes of the psyche and emerging, grimy but triumphant, with a weird, glittering object. Her poems are esoteric and blunt, brimming with ancient confusion and ecstasy (o, of the flesh!) and the pains of modern existence (websites). In one line of poetry, she's pondering the sacrament of communion; in the next, she's in Walmart."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Ariana Benson on "Dear Moses Grandy, ...Love, The Great Dismal Swamp"
"The first time the land spoke to me through poetry, its message arrived in the form of a letter, not addressed to me, but from one lover to another. In “Dear Moses Grandy, …Love, the Great Dismal Swamp,” the murky, forested, ever-shrinking land of Southeastern Virginia (that was the backdrop of much of my childhood) writes to and commemorates her first lover: Moses Grandy, an enslaved man, who, in his single-person boat and with his rustic, handmade tools, carved canals out of the murk and morass that had scared many intrepid explorers away for good." |
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