What Sparks Poetry:
Marianne Boruch on "SO WE GET THERE JUST AS"
"Words came later, by accident in a silent room at a desk. But back there, one afternoon in that desolate expanse my husband and I and a stranger, the three of us came together over that creature stricken by a fellow human we desperately wanted to disown, a driver hot to desecrate the planet. I can’t tell you the rage in me as that car grew smaller and smaller then slipped into nothing’s pure distance." |
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Juan Felipe Herrera Receives Frost Medal
"His poems move as he moves—through nature, through working-class communities of color, through political protests—though it would be more accurate to say he moves with them, for while Herrera is a keen observer he is never just looking on." The Frost Medal recognizes and celebrates a poet's lifetime achievement.
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