Five Questions with Ama Codjoe
"I love this quality in poems: the sponge-like shapeshifting they possess in relationship to what precedes and follows them....There is a balance of intention, improvisation, pleasure, and surrender in the act of worrying the line. As a reader and as a writer, I am compelled by the music of poetry. I listen for the song and follow where it leads."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jody Gladding on Marie-Claire Bancquart 's [—What did you say? Lost empires,]
"Bancquart’s poems are spare, grounded, and, for all their attention to demise, surprisingly light. Just the thing for a pandemic. This poem with its 'lost empires' and 'catastrophes' counterbalanced by a shrinking soap bar seemed particularly suited to the moment. I was struck by Bancquart’s vertiginous shifts in scope/scale, producing the same effect they do in cartoons—making us laugh." |
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