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The way things work / is that eventually / something catches.
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There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—
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Giving
Heaven
Moments
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The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.
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Eye
Storm
Trying
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Oh how we want to be taken and changed, want to be mended by what we enter.
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Changed
Taken
Want
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What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’
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A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
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Confession
Matter
Stories
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I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.
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Other Worlds
Thinking
Writing
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The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.
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Age
Creative
Responsibility
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Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.
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Beautiful
Brilliant
Drama
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If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.
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Poetry
Taken
Voice
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Water is a miracle - it takes so many forms - is the core of life - is holy. So it becomes important to pay utmost attention to the holiness which is this planet's life - blood, which we are destroying. I always look for it in a poem. I honor it. I pay it mind.
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Honor
Miracle
Water
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Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.
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Book
Perception
Veils
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We have to find a way to not refuse to see where we are, what we are doing, and yet we must still live. And making sure to live - to go through life not around it - was always hard. Making sure to be in the vale of soul - making - as John Keats put it. Now it's insanely hard.
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I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails.
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Other Worlds
Thinking
Writing
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It's very hard to look in a mirror and see anything which resembles what one feels one's self to be. I think that discomfort, that dislocation, disintegration - that raw lack of feeling whole - that dysmorphia - is a very good place, in this moment, to hunt for the kind of experience which really requires the means of poetry to be grasped or felt.
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Feelings
Mean
Thinking
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These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where “writing infects the landscape” and there are “more letters than leaves” - The kind of match one hopes for where both the translator and the poet are in luck; new poems which don't leak and yet old poems in which the original passion shines.
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Passion
Powerful
Writing
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I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
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Emotional
Moving
Philosophical
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