What Sparks Poetry:
Sean Hill on "Lake Sturgeon"
"The skin my fingers lightly brush is brown, is rough, is wet; I’m touching a lake sturgeon. I’m leaning against the edge of a touch pool at the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, Minnesota with my hand immersed in water well above my wrist. This was in the late aughts when I lived in Bemidji, a small town in north central Minnesota, and my parents were visiting from Georgia, and we’d decided as close as they were, they should see Lake Superior." |
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"I Feel Fine–Olivia Muenz"
"With I Feel Fine, Muenz adds a bold new voice to the canons of disability studies and experimental poetics alike. Equally playful and intellectual, the book exposes the depth of the superficial and the superficiality of what can attempt to be passed off as depth. She deftly engages both audience and self in ways that might be especially gratifying for disabled readers as well as anyone whose identity has been co-opted by trope and stereotype."
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