What Sparks Poetry:
Vivek Narayanan on a Poem’s Re-Entering History
"[O]nce a poem is out in the world, there’s no way to predict the different uses, appropriations, misappropriations, readings and anti-readings to which it might be put, nor the places and times where it might emerge, uncanny, as if with fresh meaning. Bei Dao’s 'The Reply' ('Huídá,' sometimes also translated as 'Answer') is one such poem, with an intense career all its own.” |
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In Memory of Steve Dalachinsky, Avant-Garde Poet
"A 2016 article about him in The Villager quoted him as saying both 'I don’t even like being called a poet' and 'Let’s put it this way: I’m a poet.' 'Steve didn’t want to be pigeonholed in any way,' his wife, Yuko Otomo, said by email, 'although towards the end of his life he realized he wasn’t good at anything but writing poetry.'”
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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