What Sparks Poetry:
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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A Conversation with Rachel Mannheimer
"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."
via MCSWEENEY'S |
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