We keep hearing -- and saying -- we don't have language for what is happening. We need new metaphors. Is "Advice to a Prophet" on every high school syllabus yet? Is "For a Coming Extinction?" Is "The Black Maria?" Meanwhile, I am thinking about the strangeness of words that circulate, ragged, limping, nearly stripped of … Continue reading near term/ mid-term/ to term
Month: October 2018
missing
A couple of weeks ago I attended a seminar about "missing voices" of women in Irish poetry. Between academics who held their subjects at an impassioned, scholarly distance, to writers who presented movingly on now dead friends, and, finally, others doing their best to fit within the shapes academia allows both for researchers and subjects, … Continue reading missing