Include motion in imagery for a sense of continuous impact
Poetry + fiction + photos + other thoughts
Category: Poetry
Below you’ll find a fantastic essay written by my high school daughter for her Honors English class. She has a thing for superheroes, so we’re just calling her Spiderkid. Yes, she got an A on the essay! (Sorry, mom bragging…
I love the 2014 book of poems by Chris Green, Résumé. In truth, I would have settled for the table of contents alone. The titles are so rich in imagery and vision, so evocative and interesting, I’m a bit jealous. Ok, I’m…
Horror, I think what it does is it really incisively takes away everything extraneous about people and then says “Okay, this is your core. You don’t have your job. You don’t have your money. You don’t have even your relationships,”…
First Course in Turbulence, Dean Young’s fourth book of poems, displays a virtuosity of image simultaneously with an economy of words. He suggests meanings, sets tone, foreshadows later parts of poems, and sometimes does so all at once. In “The…