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"Diane Seuss Garnering Recognition"
"She employs the tension between the high-end poetic form of the sonnet and her working-class language and storytelling. At the same time, she draws on parallels between the working-class mentality of being economical and the economy of language inherent in the sonnet’s 14-line limit. As one of the poems says, 'The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without.'"
via KALAMAZOO COLLEGE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Irma Pineda (Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca) on Ecopoetry Now
"In my mother-tongue, Didxazá (Zapotec), there are two words for referring to nature. One word is nagá, which makes reference to greenery, that which grows and reproduces, like plants, trees, flowers, maize: because there will be food, there will also be life. The other word, which we use more frequently, is guendanabani, which you translate as the blessing of life and which makes reference as much to the human life as to everything that surrounds us." |
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