Dr. Maya C. Popa Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr. Maya C. Popa

“I am starved for tenderness and that is what is the matter with me and has been the matter with me for months.” — May Sarton (from Recovering: A Journal)

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“The way the night knows itself with the moon, be that with me.” — Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks)

Dr. Maya C. Popa

@jorie_graham For some, I think the benefit of Substack might be that you can write at length. I’ve wanted to serialize my research on wonder for a while (rather than letting it sit on a shelf in a uni library) so I’m glad to find a place. But I won’t leave Twitter - I love sharing poems!

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"in truth the only ship there is / is the ship we are all on / burning the world as we go." One of my favorite poems by Mary Oliver: https://t.co/M8D1UQh8cZ

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Two of my literary heroes and favorite humans: @RobGMacfarlane and @jorie_graham. You can read an excerpt of Rob's brilliant preface to Graham's brilliant [To] the Last [Be] Human (@CopperCanyonPrs, Sept.) in @The_Millions here: https://t.co/vAIKqq27Ux

Dr. Maya C. Popa

Sealey redacts the U.S. Justice Department’s report on the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and reimagines the document by giving shape—and bearing witness—to racism in America.

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It’s a steam train! Anthony Hecht calls the dictionary “a sort of assemblage of solved riddles,” reminding us of the relationship between the known & the unknown. There are many parallels between the structure & language of Dickinson's poems & the tradition of riddles. 2/4

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In the preface to the first volume of Dickinson’s poems, T.W. Higginson wrote: "The verse of Emily Dickinson belongs emphatically to what Emerson long since called 'the Poetry of the Portfolio,' something produced absolutely without the thought of publication." https://t.co/IDBYCsEbpl

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Words melt in reflections; that’s why there’s a uselessness to this night, to my missing the river, to the delaying of love... — Etel Adnan

Dr. Maya C. Popa

Helen Vendler remarks on "Dickinson's invention of poetic temporal structures that mimic the structure of life as she at any moment conceives it." "By those structures, she channels our reactions, stylizes our pace to hers, and constructs our thinking after her own."