This was such a tender, textured read. I loved the metaphor of reading Mayröcker like trying to eat gelato on a frosty winter morning — both slow and delicious. There’s something really moving about savoring what resists immediate comprehension. You reminded me that poetry doesn’t have to reveal itself all at once — sometimes the beauty is in the ungrasping. Thank you for this quiet celebration of disorientation.
This is very kind and thoughtful. Yes — there can be a clarity, still, in unknowability. Even accessibility. As a culture we are very much rooted in the “Here’s why I (Person on Internet) have The Answer condensed to This Two Sentence Byline,” linguistic tradition. And poetry very much bends against this at its core — that it can both be wonderful and immensely necessary to ask the opposite of a rhetorical question. A question with no real answer.
This was such a tender, textured read. I loved the metaphor of reading Mayröcker like trying to eat gelato on a frosty winter morning — both slow and delicious. There’s something really moving about savoring what resists immediate comprehension. You reminded me that poetry doesn’t have to reveal itself all at once — sometimes the beauty is in the ungrasping. Thank you for this quiet celebration of disorientation.
This is very kind and thoughtful. Yes — there can be a clarity, still, in unknowability. Even accessibility. As a culture we are very much rooted in the “Here’s why I (Person on Internet) have The Answer condensed to This Two Sentence Byline,” linguistic tradition. And poetry very much bends against this at its core — that it can both be wonderful and immensely necessary to ask the opposite of a rhetorical question. A question with no real answer.
The reader of these poems has such a nice voice. If he is interested I have just translated a book of mine to english, which he might really enjoy.
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