Sridala Swami
Sridala Swami\'s latest collection of poetry, Escape Artist, has been published by Aleph Book Co. She is an alumnus of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
By Sridala Swami
The poems were engaging especially for the way large ideas were wrestled onto a small canvas.
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It is not necessary for epic similes to belong only in epics or epic poems.
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Some poems were about size, some experimented with how the poem looked on the page.
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Your poem can be playful, abstract, philosophical, curious - anything at all.
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Though there's a resurgence of interest in myth-making, it appears that someone else, somewhere, has to do the telling.
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Everyone knows the dramatis personae in those oldest of all stories: myths.
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A very concrete image could possibly anchor an abstract poem but only in very skilful hands that are not writing to a deadline.
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I bring back stones because they remind me of places I want to carry back with me.
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When I read them, I detect their structure and rhythm in everything I hear afterwards.
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If brevity, being the soul of wit, is already perfectly and irreducibly tied to it, sweetness provides the air in this recipe making the whole a thing of lightness.
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