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His teaching style is not dissimilar. It felt like a safe space to experiment without worrying about being seen as a less serious poet, which is something I think I was once worried about. I had so much energy for those poems. Whom were you reading when you wrote this book? What films and music were you swimming in? Who are the other godparents of Edith?
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To see Edith as possibly a strange love child of these two creative masterpieces is maybe a good starting point. There were a few books I read for the first time or returned to during the Edith days that particularly resonated with me. Music is a little trickier. In my younger life, music was incredibly important to me.
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I was in a band, I sang and wrote songs, I listened to music all day long. I went to three to four shows a week. My laptop was actually stolen partway through writing this book. It was devastating, though I think ultimately the book was better for it. But for this reason a lot of Edith was written in silence. It broke my heart to listen to music for a little while after that loss.
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We were loving songs. On a structural note, how did you choose to divvy up the book into four sections? The order of the book came somewhat naturally. I labored over it at first but it all fell into place pretty easily in the end. I wanted the book to tell a story, but not too directly. A lot of it ends up being just chronological for this reason, but not all of it.
It felt a little to me like looking at one of those Magic Eye pictures. I had to sort of turn my reasoning mind off and look past the poems in order for a shape to emerge. I trusted the feeling and followed it. And how did you decide to capitalize the beginning of every line, even when enjambed? I like that it makes each line of a poem into an individual unit. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers.
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So please make a contribution today and see your support doubly rewarded! Cynthia White is a poet in Santa Cruz. I, in the doorway, reporting on the dawn, you with your coffee. A small bird is disturbing the quince, its name forgotten. You, lost to a book. The children stand on their own, distant, brilliant stars.
Wild iris in a jar stand on the table, the table steadfast on cherry legs. Chairs stand empty, generous. We could be a couple in a Dutch painting, light cherishing the blue drapery of my bathrobe, your freckled hand as it curls around a cup that belonged to your mother, her mother before.
Husband, the sun stands on the horizon—— and the darkness. Raging wildfires have devastated both Northern and Southern California over the last several weeks. The situation has been impossible to ignore here in the Bay Area, as smoke from the fires has led to tremendously poor air quality.
The San Francisco SPCA has set up a fundraiser , specifically to provide care and treatment for animals affected by the fires. At his best, Webb is funny and self-effacingly honest, delivering poems that are intimate and warm. Unfortunately, other poems in the book often border on careless—that is, they rely on weak associations or seem half-halfheartedly crafted. Worse, however, some poems contain stereotypical portrayals of others and humor that some will likely find offensive.
The rhymes are both obvious and hidden. And the poem is interspersed with formal meter in lines like:.
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But at the bayou—where dragonflies, metallic red and blue, snap up mosquitoes over tea-stained water full of tadpoles, crayfish, punkinseeds— Teddy flops into a snarl of thorny weeds, and being 5, runs home crying. This is the kind of work that stays with a reader. More importantly, the poem feels intimate, focused, and genuine. The reader believes these are people the speaker knows and things that actually happened to him. Here are some lines that I think convey the essence of the poem:. Born and raised in the Houston area, now based in Marfa, Genitempo previously worked mostly in the Southwest; however, Jasper , his first book, represents a journey he made farther east while he was an MFA student at the Hartford Art School.
The images contain an ambiguity somewhere between loneliness and solitude, documentation and imagination, and in turn reflect the ways in which a book of poetry might weave gestural narratives based in elegy and evocative landscape. Inspired by the life and work of Arkansas poet and land surveyor Frank Stanford, Jasper transcends this reference to show how the past is lost and found—and lost again—in our contemporary moment. This interview was conducted over the phone six months later. I want to talk about the early days when you started pushing to escape the day-to-day and drove around a lot and took pictures by going places that might be unsafe.
I want to say that I understood that aspect of picture-making very early on. I think I quickly understood that photography had opened up an unknown world for them, so maybe it could do that for me. Immediately when I discovered that work, I started emulating them. They were my heroes. I started going to the seedier parts of town, downtown and the outskirts of town, bringing my camera along and making pictures. Then I started going to the smaller towns in that part of the state. I started seeing my peers making work where they were actually traveling, so I wanted to do that, too.
I went out to west Texas and made pictures out here. It was a pretty natural progression. From there, my first big trip when I was out for more than a weekend came when I was working a graphic design job and I took some time off, and I went out to New Mexico for the week. It felt like I was on another planet. I felt so far away from everything I knew. So I felt like I missed out on a lot of that growing up. That was the first road experience that I had.
The first one that had lived in my imagination. In the Winter Issue Posted on November 18, Posted in News Leave a comment. Poets Not Always Disimproving: The prologue opens with a memorable performance by hometown heroes the Carmelite Rifles at a show attended by a motley assortment of locals: All around the United States, club patrons are being transfixed by some unknown spell that causes them to gun down or otherwise attempt to murder the bands onstage: Posted in Book Reviews , News Tagged book review , fsg , indie rock , jeff jackson , music , novel , punk rock Leave a comment.
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