"The PEN TEN: An Interview with Ada Limón"
"That’s one of my most cherished elements of prosody, the idiosyncratic sonic power of a poem. It’s what drew me to poetry in the first place. A song on the page with all the music there—the melody, the tempo, the harmony, the rhythm, the pitch. I rarely start out knowing where I’m going, instead it begins with a curiosity, a question, a need, an image, a pulse, a sound." via PEN AMERICA |
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What Sparks Poetry: Eric Pankey on Gary Snyder's Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
"Stevens, one could say, shows us his work as he offers the proof of his equation. Snyder, on the other hand, allows each line, each image to stand alone, distinct, separate, and yet each is set to vibrating by the line or image next to it. Each thing is discrete yet part of a whole. I had yet to read Ezra Pound, to have explained to me the ideogrammic method, yet here it is enacted, embodied in this flawless ten-line poem." |
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