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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Posts Tagged: elegy
Projective Wonder: Imagine Us, the Swarm by Muriel Leung
The individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.
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Haunted, Beloved: A Conversation with Jacques Rancourt
Jacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
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A Poet of Ecology: Talking with Kate Gaskin
Kate Gaskin discusses her debut collection, FOREVER WAR.
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The Light Endures: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
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So That We May Move Forward: A Conversation with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello discusses her debut poetry collection, HOUR OF THE OX.
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Love and Loss in the Time of Pandemics: Talking with Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #212: Mark Bibbins
“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cameron Awkward-Rich
Cameron Awkward-Rich discusses his new collection, DISPATCH.
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Fragmenting Forward: Brute by Emily Skaja
After all, isn’t this often the truth of loss? What once was home becomes a graveyard.
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The Brink of Unbearable: Careen by Grace Shuyi Liew
[I]t is as if I am learning a new language with each poem.
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Elegy with Records on the Doorstep
The 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.
...moreA Eulogy for the Eulogy
Twentieth 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, […]
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A Dying Art: Carrie & Lowell and Elegiac Practice
Elegy cannot protect us. It is merely a contained space for us to prowl, and to prowl in a performative manner.
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The Rumpus Interview with Edward Hirsch
Dean Rader talks with Edward Hirsch about his new book Gabriel, the pain of losing a child, and the challenges of writing grief.
...morePoetry and a Son’s Death
Finding 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 Luminous Fold-Out Elegy Scrap Book
Anne 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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