Kingfisher

The dramaturg, writer, and teacher Matthew Goulish reflects on the practice of reading poetry, of reading just one poem: 'Kingfisher' by Ed Roberson. How to attend, to follow the course of poem as a waterway, to recognise in its surface tension impending drops, hidden obstacles, and disguised turns? How also and at the same time to attend to an interruption - an accidental sighting - with equal curiosity? Sincerity follows the lines of the poem inside and outside, inward and outward, drawing in a series of correspondences and correspondents, roots and sources, until reading becomes a collective endeavor; the words of Ed Roberson, Michelle Sherburne, Renee Gladman, and Lyn Hejinian are also here. As the subject of this particular poem surfaces, to catch a glimpse is not so obviously a gift: the practice of catching sight might also be injurious to another's freedom. And so we follow the trail of the poem through Smuggler's Notch.

Author: Goulish Matthew
Publisher: Both Are Worse
Published: 05/15/2024
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.48h x 4.72w x 0.23d
ISBN13: 9781915000002
ISBN10: 1915000009
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Culture, Race & Ethnicity