Happy New Year from Poetry Daily
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What Sparks Poetry:
Karen An-hwei Lee on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s “Farolita”"Today, as I re-read this poem, I enjoy the way it yields to light, as if the paper strip changes into a page, and the page of the poem into a farolita, or vice versa. In this way, it’s mostly about light without saying the word light more than once. It blurs the boundaries of thingness and mystery, obliquely pointing us to tangible and intangible realms of knowing." |
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"Young has a way of saying things perfectly but which is difficult to memorize. It’s hard to remember the order of all the words....The poems in this book are experiences; your brain starts to vibrate with a combination of logic and its opposite."
via THE ADROIT JOURNAL |
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