What Sparks Poetry:
Emily Tuszynska on "Floodplain"
"Like Shepherd, I too was aware of myself as connected to the world in profound interdependence, an understanding that philosopher and biologist Andreas Weber refers to as 'enlivenment.' Every living thing around me had been animated by the same irresistible force, a 'wordless insistence' to which my body was now yielding, 'bowing / then kneeling / to each contraction as it came.' The force that was driving my daughter into the world was the same force that drove the tulip poplar's leaves to burst from their buds and their winged seeds to root themselves in the soil." |
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Peter Gizzi Interviewed by Ariana Reines
"I've always been interested in all of the arts. Cinema, for instance, is a major language for me. And I believe that lyric poetry and cinema share many elements: speed, a compression of time, a quick cutting, and therefore, a rhythm of images. It's a sensational language and by that I mean it's hyper-expressive. Music is a lifeblood and, like poetry, it is expressive and sensational. Musicality in a poem is important, and for me, an essential part of how it operates and expresses its emotional reality."
via BROOKLYN RAIL |
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