What I love about this poem is its projection of human psyche onto the world. It’s comprehension of singular self, as part of a collective involvement. It’s an honest look at memory and emotions. Faced with a 'drab misery' she craves memory for escape. But memory is tinged with the very same grotesquery of the world, conflicting emotions fumbling and mixing with it. Pleasure is ultimately experienced. Us with it.
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"What We Learn and Cherish"
"The lyrical breadth and depth of Yona Harvey’s second collection of poems, You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love, is stunning; the book’s poetic conversation across time and space deliciously resists easy categorization or summary. Grounded in female Black experience, the poems variously celebrate deep roots in tradition and chart possible futures, terrestrial and beyond."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Vivek Narayanan on "Ayodhya"
"Every translation is a collaboration among many, including all those who have come to this terrain before you. I am indebted even to those translations whose approach I reject because they gave me the benefit of having something to reject.
If nothing is to be lost, something must first be gained." |
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