"The Magic of Utterance: Sun Yung Shin Interviewed"
"It's really natural to think of poetry as an occult practice—it forms a continuous line with my Roman Catholic upbringing and as an immigrant and a naturalized citizen. I remember having a lot of questions as a kid about the language that white America used in terms of nationhood, belonging, and ancestry, in particular the word forefather."
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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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