Our Recognizable, Difficult, Earthly Kingdom: Such Color by Tracy K. Smith
Composition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
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...moreThe individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.
...moreJacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
...moreKate Gaskin discusses her debut collection, FOREVER WAR.
...moreGrief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
...moreMarci Calabretta Cancio-Bello discusses her debut poetry collection, HOUR OF THE OX.
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...moreVictoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
...more“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
...moreCameron Awkward-Rich discusses his new collection, DISPATCH.
...moreAfter all, isn’t this often the truth of loss? What once was home becomes a graveyard.
...more[I]t is as if I am learning a new language with each poem.
...moreThe old music still filled pits in him like sawdust and wood glue do a nail hole. The songs didn’t say anything new over the years, but they provided home when he missed it.
...moreTwentieth century philosopher J.L. Austin asked in his writing what words and phrases could do in their utterance. In this tradition, Nick Ripatrazone examines Morgan Meis and Stefanie Anne Goldberg’s fictionalized eulogy collection, Dead People, to find out what the memorializing of public figures like Kurt Cobain and Christopher Hitchens actually do in their tellings, […]
...moreElegy cannot protect us. It is merely a contained space for us to prowl, and to prowl in a performative manner.
...moreDean Rader talks with Edward Hirsch about his new book Gabriel, the pain of losing a child, and the challenges of writing grief.
...moreFinding a way to grieve for the passing of a child is a complicated matter. Poet Edward Hirsch lost his son in 2011, and has just completed a 76-page elegy that will be published in September titled Gabriel. Alec Wilkinson goes deep into Hirsch’s moving story at the New Yorker.
...moreAnne Carson’s new book Nox, at first sight looks like a Vollmann-esque door stopper of at least a thousand pages — until you hold the book and realize that it opens like a treasure box to reveal an accordion-like sprawl of paper that unfolds and keeps unfolding on your desk. The pages are filled with […]
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