What Sparks Poetry:
Maud Casey on Joanna Klink's The Nightfields
"I read from The Nightfields most mornings for the vertiginous pleasure of scale, for the sense of intimacy and infinitude, in order to feel my insignificance in the world. Our relative insignificance, our like-it-or-not interconnectedness, Klink reminds us, is not such a bad thing to feel." |
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A Short Conversation with Kaveh Akbar
"If I could say in rhetorical language—like how we’re speaking to each other now—what I actually mean when I say 'God,' when I say 'grace,' when I say 'dead,' when I say 'justice,' I wouldn’t need the poems. I could just write brochures. The poems illuminate what my intelligence, my ego, cannot."
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