Amaud Jamaul Johnson Talks to Courtney Faye Taylor
"There are some experiences and truths that I need the reader to see. That’s what I love about visual poetics. It’s a form that uses concrete imagery as language. There’s a visual poem that’s broken up across Concentrate that uses pictures of Black women and girls that I found on missing persons flyers....In that poem, I’m really thinking about the violence of being forgotten, but also about the violence of being reduced to stereotypical characteristics."
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What Sparks Poetry:
David Hinton on Li Po's "Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon"
"I’ve found that translating classical Chinese poetry is a way for me to make contemporary poetry that operates outside of the Western cosmological or mythological system, even so far as to register a very different sense of what the self is. In this poetry, identity can be so much a part of the empirical world that it actually becomes landscape." |
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