An Invisible World: Tomas Tranströmer’s The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems (Expanded Edition)
The poem, [Tranströmer] seems to say, doesn’t have to carry every burden of its poet’s heart. It doesn’t need to speak out loud, either.
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Aaron Belz
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Aaron Belz has published three books of poetry—The Bird Hoverer (BlaxeVOX, 2007), Lovely, Raspberry (Persea, 2010) and Glitter Bomb (Persea, 2014)—as well as numerous essays and reviews. Originally from St. Louis, he now lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Find him on Twitter at @aaronbelz.
Pressing Back against the Pressure: A Woman of Property by Robyn Schiff
It’s about pressure. The pressure of one being enveloping another being, of one mother hugging her child, of a greater force subsuming and defining a lesser.