[Editors’ note: This post will be our final miCRo for this calendar year. See you in January 2021!]
Associate Editor Madeleine Wattenberg: Every line of Danielle Badra’s contrapuntal poem “It Is” complicates what it means to speak grief. What is the form that can carry it? “A eulogy ends at the funeral” and “An elegy tries too hard,” she writes. In direct conversation with Anne Carson’s Nox (New Directions, 2010), another intertextual book written after the loss of a sibling, this poem should be read down, across, again and again.
Make sure to check out our interview with Danielle Badra about her work in this form tomorrow on the blog!
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It Is
with italicized text from Anne Carson’s Nox (New Directions, 2010)
Danielle Badra received her BA in creative writing from Kalamazoo College and her MFA in poetry from George Mason University. She won the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for her collection Like We Still Speak, which will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in the fall of 2021.
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