we begin by connecting
I have been reading Ross Gay’s collection of essays, Inciting Joy. I have an ambivalent relationship with short stories (I want world-building to get lost in that lasts longer), but as it turns out, I’m falling in love with essays right now. How can I not?
“Poems are made of lines, which are actually breaths, and so the poem’s rhythms, its time, is at the scale and pace and tempo of the body, the tempo of our bodies lit with our dying. And poems are communicated, ultimately, body to body, voice to ear, heart to heart. Even if those hearts are not next to one another in space or time. Poetry makes them so. All of which is to say a poem might bring time back to its bodily & earthly proportions.” (Ross Gay, Inciting Joy)
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