"A Room With History"
"As Brand writes, there is no way in, no return, 'no ancestry except the black water and the Door of no Return.' The door is less a place than a threshold of the brutal history of capitalist modernity. The door is the end of traceable beginnings and provides a figure for describing the psychic and affective dimensions of black existence in the diaspora."
via THE PARIS REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Henry on Tomaž Šalamun's "Sutra"
"Though Šalamun would leave the interview format behind, he continued to ask many questions in his work, sometimes building poems upon a series of questions, as in the poem featured here. Although the title, 'Sutra,' implies the imparting of wisdom or knowledge, Šalamun was more interested in the interplay between the questions and answers than in satisfying the expectations of a conventional sutra." |
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