Meghan O'Rourke on Adrienne Rich's "The Burning of Paper Instead of Children"
"The title stopped me in my tracks: it was at once violent and knowing, and it knew something I didn't, but it knew it in language that did something to my limbic system, making my neck go cold. I read the poem over and over, shaken into a reckoning with it: with the way the poem invoked the Holocaust and its aftermath, startled to attention by the poem's invocation of the way that political pressure can crumple individuals who come under it."
via POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA |
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What Sparks Poetry:
fahima ife (New Orleans) on Ecopoetry Now"That I required a desert to write poetry of the swamp. I open another poetry collection, wander inside the wet density of word, step outside world as we know it. As if poets hold access to the mycelial inner-dimensionalities of Earth as we continue singing in its wake. Something about lack of old forest in the DeepSouth—as you say: the woods here are less than one-hundred years old, on a billions of years old planet, in a newly-contested country, written in the lineage of descent." |
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