Image Ruby is most engaging when he ventilates his exposition with striking imagery, as in passages imagining Bronze Age oral poetry delivered in “nomadic fellowship” at “the blood-spattered ...
These experiences inspired her syncretic depictions of Orixás, or Yoruba deities that guide and protect, which incorporate dreamlike imagery drawn from vernacular songs, native flora, and ...
As I listen to my friends sprinkle “Pookie” into conversation like a modern-day sonnet, I can’t help but wonder: Is this what poetry has become in the 21st century? Sonnets, once prose ...