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“This Fraught and Gorgeous World”: A Conversation with Anna Lena Phillips Bell
“I’ve always loved the phrase might could—it’s very much part of the vernacular I grew up speaking and hearing. There’s both a sense of hope and a sense of resignation in it. When I was writing what became the book’s…
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The Call and Response of the Ensemble Novel: A Conversation with Emily Nemens
“I do think a lot about musical structures, and call and response. There is a common source to both writing and music—some of these patterns that we digest and metabolize as musicians about structure and callbacks. I love telling my…
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Obliteration and Authorship: On Hamid Ismailov’s “We Computers”
Jon-Perse’s vision for computer generated poetry can be summed up as a kind of obliteration of the author.
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Meaning in the Ice and “A Violence: Poems” by Paula Bohince
Like silence, violence is not quantifiable. Put the indefinite article “a” in front of it and the monolithic world of violence shutters into a reflective surface of infinite, biodiverse fragments. What counts as violence?
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Knowing the End before the Beginning: A Conversation with Jonathan Miles
The distinctions we make between ourselves and our animal brethren tend to be very self-flattering. We have unique skills and capabilities, to be sure, but they’re just fractionally different from those of many animals, and our primal drives are essentially…
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