Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
The Architecture of Persona: Steven Price Writes Houdini
Posted: July 21, 2009
Tags: Paulette Jiles, Eadweard Muybridge, novel in verse, Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle
“I didn’t want to just hit the peaks of his life, I wanted to hit a number of the troughs too, small moments that aren’t necessarily talked about or discussed or described in the biographies but that he, of course, experienced. They tend to be incredibly important to us as individuals. Just that flicker of sunlight on the grass that you remember from your childhood, which means nothing to you except it’s such an extraordinarily warm, protective moment. Houdini would have had these too.”
Brick Books’ Kitty Lewis
“Our mandate is to foster interesting and ambitious work by Canadian poets, both new and established; to produce beautifully designed, attractive books worthy of the excellence of their contents; and to distribute and promote these books and their authors.”
— Kitty Lewis
Sculpture of Meaning: Karla Kelsey’s Language Arts
“I think I’m very infatuated with perception, where language and perception meet, and how language creates our perception while perception creates our language.”
Crafting Connection: Christina Davis Reaches Out
“I think I’ve always been fascinated by freedom and the fear of freedom — and, among poets, the quest for some containment or some instruction, the quest for some criterion, for some way to know whether what we’re speaking is correct, or appropriate, or arriving somewhere.”
Creating the Chorus: Joshua Kryah and the Question of Faith
Posted: December 22, 2008
Tags: Dante's Beatrice, the Beloved, Shakespeare, James Merrill, Ezra Pound
“…the poem that is crafted as well as it can be crafted sometimes winds up just ‘saying’ something; it’s saying this about language, or it’s saying this about faith, or it’s saying this about the Beloved, or the condition of love. Whereas right now what I want to do is speak. I want, not to pronounce, but to let the poems go further than they usually have, or that I’ve allowed them to go.”
