What Sparks Poetry:
Matt Donovan on Other Arts
"Yet, as with each of the blackout poems I wrote for our Missing Department project (twenty-five in all), there were always more resonant and unexpected meanings to explore beyond any words the two texts happened to share. Although I might have been initially pleased to make a connection between the mother's address in Klamath Falls and the story's descriptions of a river that ran through the center of its fictional town, for instance, the presence of moving water ended up affording me the poem's core metaphor." |
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Emily Lee Luan Interviewed by Wendy Xu
"The poem where the speaker talks directly to the grandfather—'何處別魂銷?'—is in the center of the book. The speaker and the grandfather are in the hole together, or in that in-between space, in this case, between life and death. Much of the affect theory and writing on racial melancholia that spawned this book argues for looking at negative emotions (what Sianne Ngai also calls 'ugly feelings'), like ambivalence, melancholy, disgust, et cetera, as generative."
via BOMB MAGAZINE |
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