What Sparks Poetry:
Nica Giromini on Language as Form
"What drew me to terza rima in particular is the tension, or rather disagreement, manufactured by its braided structure of rhymes. Because each stanza is interconnected with both the following and the former, the borders of the unit of the stanza start to fray. And a productive tension—one parallel to that of the competing units of sense of the line and the sentence—emerges between the units of sense of the stanza and of the poem (across stanzas)." |
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A Conversation with Alice Oswald
"If a rose is somehow visible beyond the eye and if its color travels not along the nerves but along the blood and goes straight to the heart and if this fact cannot be proved but can be felt, like a hand moving around my chest with a torch, then the same applies to humans and that is what poems are trying to convey."
via MCSWEENEY'S |
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