What Sparks Poetry:
Gilad Jaffe on Language as Form
"Temporary things don’t want to be permanent—at the end of the day, I like to think they fall in love with their own uncertainty. The purple vinyl seats melting into the Iowan wall, the orange traffic cones stationed at an intersection in Rhode Island, blossoming. 'The yellow horses spilling from their sidewalk stalls, sidestepping fruit vendors in an inharmonious derby….'" |
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Liza Katz Duncan Talks to Cynthia Marie Hoffman
"Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s Exploding Head is a courageous memoir-in-poems recounted in snapshots from the life of a speaker with obsessive-compulsive disorder, as she learns to hold space for the daily realities of living in a complicated brain without letting it overtake her. The narrative zooms in on various images, rituals, and intrusive thoughts the disorder has invented—counting window panes; a terrifying angel in her bedroom—and the eventual meanings they take on throughout her life."
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