What Sparks Poetry:
Nathan Spoon on Language as Form
"'I Have a Vision for My Poems' belongs to a series of Sylvia Plath found poems Nazifa Islam is writing 'to dissect, examine, and explore the bipolar experience.' The poem exemplifies how Islam is using this series to openly connect with a disabled ancestor, which is important because, while various cognitive disabilities have probably existed as long as humans have, the language to frame and see them as distinct embodiments and identities has not." |
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"A Conversation with Jackson Holbert"
"And you start feeling almost distant from yourself in the same way you feel distant from the huge elements of the landscape. So I think that, to me, is sort of at the heart of this book. And maybe the creepier nature portrayed in my work and in the work of other people who are my age. It has a lot to do with community. It has a lot to do with how America has sprawled and particularly in the West, how open and huge these landscapes are."
via THE ADROIT JOURNAL |
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