I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.
I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel l… - Anna Journey
I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel l…
- Anna Journey
I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm… - Anna Journey
I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm…
I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape differe… - Anna Journey
I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape differe…
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where… - Anna Journey
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where…
My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish p… - Anna Journey
My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish p…
I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a numb… - Anna Journey
I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a numb…
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. - Anna Journey
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if… - Anna Journey
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if…
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical. - Anna Journey
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.
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