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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"A Conversation with Sarah Ghazal Ali"
"I think that different languages unlock different levels of mystery for me. Different languages give me access to different parts of my brain and parts of what poetry is, if that makes sense. And then bringing them all together on the page just feels like the truest version of who I am. English is the language that I navigate the world in most often, but it's not the most musical or interesting language that I have to work with. And to write completely in English would be to neglect the more alive and rich languages that I have access to."
via CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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