Solmaz Sharif's Customs Reviewed by Kyle Carrerro Lopez
"Customs grapples with many customs of polite society, including empathy, the idealization of which is itself a custom many producers and consumers of the arts seem to uphold as central to a personal ethic. But what are the bounds of empathy? Might I set myself up for overstepping by believing I truly understand another's experience just by watching a film or reading a bit about it?"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Maricela Guerrero (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
"And this is precisely where poetry and poetic communion shelter me with hope without optimism; where, in the different languages inhabited by beings with whom I share the air and water of this planet, we come together in longing for and choosing another way of interweaving, of searching inside ourselves for new ways to reverse this disaster." |
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