What Sparks Poetry:
Cindy Juyoung Ok on Kim Hyesoon's "After All the Birds Have Gone"
"Stanzas and whole poems refuse the unit of the sentence, creating new syntax and refusing to designate themselves relevant to the constructs of past, present, or future. Kim’s is a poetry of present aftermath—of the annihilation absolute but not completed, of the past yet also ongoing. Although the source text of 'After All the Birds Have Gone' is in the present tense, its frame of reference is of survival, invoking the past, while the implied conditional hints at the future." |
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"Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic With a Poet’s Voice, Dies"
"Since 1964: New and Selected Poems, a collection drawn from several volumes of his verse, was published in 1978. Soon after, he told Interview magazine, 'the art criticism ate the poetry.' But poetry, he wrote in the introduction to Let’s See: Writings on Art from The New Yorker (2008), had instilled in him the habit of 'tracking truth by ear, stalking surprise, not knowing what I have to say until I’ve said it.'"
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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