Tag: elegy
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one more from Rodney Gomez
In my recent microreview & interview of Rodney Gomez’s Citizens of the Mausoleum (Sundress Publications), I identified a manner of listing engaged with throughout the collection. One thing that such skilled listing points to is a poet’s capacity for attention. In lists, attention works in an almost syncopated manner. In “Cartography” (below), this attention is…
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unraveling with Gregory Orr
One thing I’m always reminding myself to do when revising a poem is to open up to what’s already there on the page and push beyond what I see to what else could be there. Usually I’ll write a list of images or words that the language of the draft as-is inspires. While I have…
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* Onions & the friday influence
This week on the Influence: Onions! Seriously: in keeping with last week’s post, I have decided to share this poem of mine, “Onions”, which was also revised after publication. The original of this poem found a home at The Windward Review. It came out of a writing exercise where I wrote about something I hated.…
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