Status Updates From Finger Exercises for Poets

language is beautifully crafted. good use of examples with poems from others. perfectly combines action with understanding.

ostranenie, which means constantly attempting to discover new ways of looking at everyday things. There are always two realities rubbing up against each other in every poem, whether they are specified or not, and whether they are used consciously or not.

Tthe author quotes someone mentioning a poetry anthology I read and reviewed here, Japanese Death Poems. Maybe the read my review?! More importantly, I'm still enjoying the example poems and her elaborating text!

The examples have been a great way to read poems by poets I don't know, and the the essay bits that introduce and/or follow the poems are thought-provoking and/or fun,.

Russian formalists have a word: ostranenie, which means constantly attempting to discover new ways of looking at everyday things. There are always two realities rubbing up against each other in every poem, whether they are specified or not, and whether they are used consciously or not.

browsing the clubs read a lil’ early 🙂‍↕️

the kim addonizio shout out at the beginning? now that’s exactly what we like to see