What Sparks Poetry:
Oliver de la Paz on Language as Form
"I started writing pantoums to demarcate section breaks to rectify what I saw as an imbalance in the work. I wanted to place the pantoum, which was originally a Malaysian form, against the sonnet's Western European tradition as a subtle nod to the complications that arise when attempting to adapt to a place." |
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A Conversation with Timmy Straw
"But I also think that poetry wants an adversary, formal or actual, it doesn't really matter: a constraint, a limit, an enemy (or a friend—the best friends we can have are adversaries, kind adversaries). Reagan was probably my first adversary, both on a psychic and a structural level, and because of this, I learned a great deal from him: in a sense, I came to recognize what I loved of the world through him, because he, in turn, opposed everything I loved: everything that was free, everything that was wild, everything that could be stolen, that could be cared for, that could be lost."
via MCSWEENEY'S |
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