Amy King's Blog - Posts Tagged "poet"
PLEASED TO FIND A SURPRISE REVIEW!
Slaves to Do These Things
I was pleased to find Nancy Bevilaqua's review of Slaves to Do These Things today!
Thanks for engaging the work and for thinking about poetry overall, Nancy!
Read it here -
The perfectly natural questions "But what is the poem about?" and "What does this mean?" can be both frustrating and very useful to a poet. My own response, over time, has become, "What does it mean to YOU?" [Click to continue!]
I was pleased to find Nancy Bevilaqua's review of Slaves to Do These Things today!
Thanks for engaging the work and for thinking about poetry overall, Nancy!
Read it here -
The perfectly natural questions "But what is the poem about?" and "What does this mean?" can be both frustrating and very useful to a poet. My own response, over time, has become, "What does it mean to YOU?" [Click to continue!]
A Poetics of the Zeitgeist by Amy King
Please check out my latest pandemic-inspired essay on poetry and capitalism at Jacket Magazine -
EXCERPT:
Poetry is a low-stakes celebratory game in the larger machinery we inhabit, and for that reason, despite a part of our industry’s desire to run in sync with capitalist values, to don the yoke of capitalism, in the fullness of time, poetry is also one of the least likely of the arts to be read and revered for who was published in what prestigious publication.
I do not pick up a Cesar Vallejo poem and decide it isn’t meaningful because it never made it to whatever the hottest venue was in Paris in his last years. Vallejo had escaped government persecution in Peru, was occasionally destitute, often depressed, and died in Paris in poverty.
Continued at Jacket Magazine - http://jacket2.org/commentary/two-essays
EXCERPT:
Poetry is a low-stakes celebratory game in the larger machinery we inhabit, and for that reason, despite a part of our industry’s desire to run in sync with capitalist values, to don the yoke of capitalism, in the fullness of time, poetry is also one of the least likely of the arts to be read and revered for who was published in what prestigious publication.
I do not pick up a Cesar Vallejo poem and decide it isn’t meaningful because it never made it to whatever the hottest venue was in Paris in his last years. Vallejo had escaped government persecution in Peru, was occasionally destitute, often depressed, and died in Paris in poverty.
Continued at Jacket Magazine - http://jacket2.org/commentary/two-essays
