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Some Sort of Truth: Dorothea Lasky’s BLACK LIFE Hurts Like Joy

by Lonely Christopher April 15, 2010 Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky is a poet of petulant grace. The particular way she does is she carves into the alphabet for poetry’s hurtfully buried, metastasized epiphanies of black life. Thence comes the fragments of jagged wonder she strings together to decorate her verse with pretty conflict. Her wonder (love and awe) is heavy and plain, stilted [...]

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Closing a Poem (Blogging through Grossman, Part 6)

by Micah Towery April 6, 2010 Art

How do you know when you’re “done” a poem? I’m not speaking about revision, but rather, the act of writing, particularly lyrical free verse. Donna Masini once described it to me (or a class I was in—can’t remember which), as a settling in the body: a literal sense in the poet’s body that there is [...]

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Holy Saturday: The Poetry of Doubt

by Adam Fitzgerald April 3, 2010 God

She hears, upon that water wide without sound, A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.” —Wallace Stevens, ‘Sunday Morning’ “Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form [...]

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