What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In Books We’ve Loved, our editorial board members and invited poets reflect on a book that has been particularly meaningful to them in the last year. Each Monday's delivery brings you a poem from the book and an excerpt from the essay. 
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These sentences will reflect many places sitting in the same place; they will rise with breathing and fold at the apex

These places will leak their histories and will void; they will burn lines into the walls of the page and will haunt the periphery with figuration

These sentences will keep their core lit throughout the event of this writing and will attempt to grow a floor out of an introduction then build an essay under the floor and have math be the ghosts

These sentences will be on fire by the time the dream arrives and will not want the dream, will be in a state of both narrating the dream and tearing it apart; these will have speed as they burn, will fray

from the book PLANS FOR SENTENCES / Wave Books
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Heather Green on Renee Gladman's Plans for Sentences


"The pathos in these lines might bring up different associations for different readers. For me, there's pathos somehow 'leaking' from these sentences, calling to mind the ways we build or fail to build communities, shelters, and habitable spaces. Taken together, the text and images here dream and draft and gesture toward future creations, lines of many kinds that will create, inhabit, and alter future spaces."
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"I'm thinking, too, of a Robert Smithson line that's in the book: 'Scale determines art.' With understatement, the representation of the emotion isn't to scale. But it's recognizable as understatement because the other person can intuit the emotion's 'true size'—based, I guess, on the circumstances described. And also, of course, description can have an emotional valence, isn't neutral."

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