What Sparks Poetry: Katie Peterson on Other Arts "I find this to be common with poems, which are like my favorite kind of children—give them a job to do, and they'd rather do anything else. But give them nothing to do, and they hate you. A poem ends up being equal parts what you must do and what you want to do, but in a way, with a proportion, inhabiting a mood you can't predict. A map offers a perfect occasion for this, since, like a family portrait, what it leaves in points towards what it leaves out. The poem became about everything the map couldn't record." |
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"A SUITE FOR LOUISE: Twelve Remembrances" "As the days go by, I see Louise even more as someone with Thoreauvian—Emersonian—Cantabridgian—instincts, an antinomian in civilization's clothing, a rebel, a cosmic naysayer, a consummate teacher who dissembled herself into acceptable surfaces to needle her lucky disciples further." via STYLUS |
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