Eleni Stecopoulos On "A New Poetics of Illness and Healing"
"I wanted to be clear-eyed about the violent ideologies embedded in discourses of healing, which I had experienced firsthand with those who called themselves healers. I was suspicious of charisma as a mystification of power. I knew that some of my audience would be just as suspicious and dismissive of the very term healing, given its frequent deployment by self-help personalities, wellness hucksters, and politicians to mystify the very conditions from which they profited and did not actually seek to change."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Diane Seuss on Reading Prose
"Keats’s ballad opens with three stanzas in the voice of a questioner, after which the knight-at-arms takes over, answering the questioner through storytelling. Likewise, set at the center of Lorca’s poem is a dialogue between the older and younger man. As the green girl teeters on the balcony, suspended between dream and reality, life and death, so Keats’s knight occupies the in-between, stranded by the faery 'On the cold hill’s side.' And each poem, in its way, serves as an allegory for the container itself, the ballad form, which inhabits the liminal space between narrative and lyric, story and song." |
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