"Resistance without Rhetoric"
"Regardless of style or affiliation, the best poetry of our moment gains distinction not from content, but from what content demands—the renewal of poetic resources....new poetry collections by Myung Mi Kim, Lisa Jarnot, and Ahmad Almallah reconcile the urge to render and address social and political life with the desire to make the poem a self-sustaining work of the imagination."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Standing Outside
"'—kept losing self control,' the first line of [Brenda Hillman's] poem, exposes one danger of being in public, the danger of losing control. But is it in our best interest, or even rational, to demonstrate control over ourselves, our emotions, in the face of fascism or environmental collapse? What is the use of self control, the poem asks, as the speaker’s persona fractures on the page." |
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