How Memory Feels
how memory feels
On Julie Hanson’s The Audible and The Evident & John Sibley Williams’ Skin Memory
“I want to say that poets revive memory (and survive it) by constructing on the page how memory feels. And how it disrupts consciousness, like a single raindrop splashing the surface of an otherwise still pond, sending ripples both downward and outward.”
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the sum
of its parts
the sum of its parts
On Meg Eden’s Drowning in The Floating World & Lesle Lewis’ Rainy Days on the Farm
“. . . where Meg Eden focuses on water in extremis—tidal wave, flood, drowning, destruction—in Lesle Lewis’ collection a rainy day suggests a tone, the commonplace, at worst an oppressive backdrop.”
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