Jesse Nathan Interviews Poet Deborah Landau
"As for your question about the 'panic of death,' nothing really seems to take that away, does it?—but at least maybe we can try to make something of that panic. For me that’s the most satisfying thing about writing—there’s no catharsis, there’s no way out, but writing through experience offers something to do beyond simply enduring it, which (on good days) feels like a meaningful way to go through this life."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Claire Wahmanholm on "Deathbed Dream with Extinction List"
"I love writing abecedarians. I love that they make me reach for words I would not ordinarily reach for; I love that they gesture at abundance without exhausting it, that they leave more unsaid than said. I love that they open the doors of my existing knowledge and invite me into the dictionary, the thesaurus, the encyclopedia, any number of archives. I love how democratic they are: even the trickiest, least common letter must be used, and the heavy hitters may only appear once." |
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