What Sparks Poetry:
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes on Ama Codjoe's "Superpower"
"Each time I read 'Superpower,' I’m astonished by the turns the poem keeps making: from the playful to the horrifying, spanning over a hundred years in a few lines. The poem moves from an imagined fantasy of a superhero, to the folk hero John Henry, to an unnamed enslaved woman, to a (re)imagined memory of the speaker’s mother." |
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Second Look: Judith Hall
"To read Judith Hall over nearly three decades is to witness the evolution of a genuine poetic innovator less interested in self-promotion, publication, and awards (although she’s won a significant number of major prizes) than in formal enactments of difficult truths—often painful truths about girlhood, beauty, violence, illness, and the limits of language itself."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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