Sorry to hear that you've tested positive for Covid. All the best to you as you recover.
Thank you so much for this introduction to the work of Solmaz Sharif and for this affirmation:
"Poetry redirects my gaze. It affirms my imagination. It often makes witness possible, and it certainly models the kind of attention that I strive to enact, the attention that refuses generalization, the attention that communicates, through language, a kind of care."
Wanting to know more about Solmaz Sharif, I found this:
Love the discussion about "until". And I love how you point out all the rich possibilities a poem suggests. The last line could be ominous (which is how I first read it), or hopeful. Thank you so much for your words. Hope you recover easily and quickly!
Just dealing with my first go-round with COVID myself--definitely not my idea of fun. My brain is still a bit fuzzy, but this poem reminded me of "We Are Not Responsible" by Harryett Mullen. Mullen's poem is told entirely from the perspective of the authority figure(s), but that same sense of wielding authority for its own sake and the danger of responding to it comes through: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/145281/we-are-not-responsible
Sorry to hear that you've tested positive for Covid. All the best to you as you recover.
Thank you so much for this introduction to the work of Solmaz Sharif and for this affirmation:
"Poetry redirects my gaze. It affirms my imagination. It often makes witness possible, and it certainly models the kind of attention that I strive to enact, the attention that refuses generalization, the attention that communicates, through language, a kind of care."
Wanting to know more about Solmaz Sharif, I found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=G_6HE6algP4
Love the discussion about "until". And I love how you point out all the rich possibilities a poem suggests. The last line could be ominous (which is how I first read it), or hopeful. Thank you so much for your words. Hope you recover easily and quickly!
Just dealing with my first go-round with COVID myself--definitely not my idea of fun. My brain is still a bit fuzzy, but this poem reminded me of "We Are Not Responsible" by Harryett Mullen. Mullen's poem is told entirely from the perspective of the authority figure(s), but that same sense of wielding authority for its own sake and the danger of responding to it comes through: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/145281/we-are-not-responsible