Wrestling with Arda Collins, Part 1
“The Sky As With Bells, As With Nothing In It” You know how sometimes you have to listen to an album a few times before something about the music clicks– and suddenly it becomes your favorite album...
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A few weeks ago, I realized that there was something — strange – about Arda Collins’ It Is Daylight that kept pulling me back in. But her voice was so unlike other poets that I’ve returned to over the...
View ArticleWrestling with Arda Collins, Part 3: A Look at “Low” and “Pool #13″
In part 3 of this strange and wandering series of posts about the poetry of Arda Collins, I’m going to look more closely at her poem “Low,” which first appeared in The New Yorker on June 2, 2008. And...
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