What Sparks Poetry:
Donald Revell on James Longenbach's Forever
"To read the poems gathered as Forever is to walk beside Jim Longenbach along the banks of Lethe. We know the place, having been here before, with Dante in the most beautiful cantos of his Purgatorio. We remember its perils—the perils of oblivion and forgetfulness. And we remember its allures—the garden on the farther shore and a reunion there with the unforgettable. But something has changed. Somehow, Longenbach has prepared an estate for us along the water’s edge." |
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"Short Conversations with Poets: Matthew Dickman"
"When making something I don’t sit around waiting for the muse. I believe in inspired moments but the muse I can do without. I have found that the important thing for me is to just sit down and write, to not expect some amazing outcome, some literary product, but to focus on the experience of making, of writing. If I have enjoyed a session of writing then it doesn’t matter what I’ve made.".
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