What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In Books We’ve Loved, our editorial board members and invited poets reflect on a book that has been particularly meaningful to them in the last year. Each Monday's delivery brings you a poem from the book and an excerpt from the essay. 
almost holy thing
is an almost holy thing
a thing almost
almost holy
so almost holy is this thing
that it forcibly draws the attention
the almost absolute blindness of people
taking into account that in the final accounting
it is almost unnecessary to see to believe in a thing so almost
so consequently almost
holy
and what’s more this element or thing
has bled
or almost
and we can esteem it from the shade of what’s almost bleeding
over the earth over the earth over this exact same earth
and resuming the explanation
we have this thing
a thing bah a ton
of thing almost half holy
and what’s more bloody and therefore
and in budding almost ad nauseam
and this thing in another order of things
resists with almost all of its buttons
being almost uncovered
analyzed pulverized eviscerated
up to its final internal reasons
better to say almost internal because the thing itself
doesn’t peel off so easily
but rather layer by layer
like an artichoke
like winter
and time ah time that disjunctive
factor that almost runs out here
and therefore impedes us
from reaching the great why
and the superhow of this thing
almost holy
so tam tam almost holy
so almost almost
almost so holy
from the book OVA COMPLETA / Ugly Duckling Presse
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Silvina López Medin on Susana Thénon's Ova Completa

"This book questions systems of faith and is also, among many other things, something of a search for ways 'to believe'....There must be way out, an exit, Thénon seems to be telling us, and that’s why she keeps asking, questioning, putting one word in front of the other traversing the void in between, building out of words something that goes beyond words, a space with no hierarchies of language, of register, of form."
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