What Sparks Poetry:
Lena Crown on Taneum Bambrick's Vantage
"No tagline could hold all that Bambrick has achieved: a sweeping portrait across time of a community beholden to a single, monumental piece of infrastructure, a queer coming-of-age, a specific yet universal story of ecological death and climate resilience. This is a landscape where the drowned and concealed do not stay that way; monoliths crack and water levels fall, revealing what we’ve jettisoned, sacrificed, tolerated into obscurity." |
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Elisa Gabbert on Little Poems
"I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit into me/like a hook into an eye/a fish hook/an open eye”), was in my 10th-grade English textbook. My own eye latched onto this four-line poem, in the middle of class, because it was so short—which made it seem larger than the others, like the large-print text in Dr. Seuss, almost easier to read than not to read. It’s a poem designed to make you gasp, and I did."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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