What Sparks Poetry:
Lindsay Turner on "Forms of Displeasure"
"In The Upstate, I was trying to connect the regional experience of a place, a certain corner of Southern Appalachia, with the bigger structural issues of America of 2016-2020, roughly, and of the world. I was trying to do this in poems because it’s also what I was trying to do in real life, struggling against the claustrophobia of depression and anxiety as well as of certain region-based patterns of writing and thinking." |
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"A Conversation with Annelyse Gelman"
"Vexations is enacting individual memory on a cultural scale. Information is neither stored nor retrieved in a logical, linear fashion. Memories become vivid in some places, barren in others—and memory itself, as we know from decades of research, is unstable and fundamentally unreliable: 'Persistence of and confidence in a memory is no guarantee of its accuracy.'"
viaTHE ADROIT JOURNAL |
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