What Sparks Poetry:
Sarah Ghazal Ali on Language as Form
"'Matrilineage [Umbilicus]' sprung from this unsettledness, not halfway into my first pregnancy, when my body ceased to be entirely mine. I came to the page eyes closed, hands outstretched to trace the contours of my thinking. I could not yet trace the face of my child, so I tried instead to touch each thought as it was born." |
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Rosmarie Waldrop: The Role of Silence in Poetry"This lesson in leanness was taken into another dimension when I heard Robert Creeley read his poems. It was a revelation: he so clearly 'read' the silence at the end of each line without, however, letting the tension of the grammatical arc drop. This brought home to me that a poem is embedded in a matrix of silence. So that even if the words celebrate what is, each line acknowledges what is not."viaTHE MIT PRESS READER |
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