Wednesday 13 January 2021

Jai Hamid Bashir : part four

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author?

I read Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass daily. I also am endlessly inspired by Paul Celan, Marina Tsvetaeva, Cecilia Vicuna, and Anne Carson. Here are texts I’ve read possibly over ten times: Ariel by Sylvia Plath; The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson; Odes by Sharon Olds; Late Wife by Claudia Emerson; What the Living Do by Marie Howe; Where Now: New & Selected Poems by Laura Kasischke; Orbit by Cynthia Zarin; Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon; & Certain Magical Acts by Alice Notley.;  Hidden Water by Frank Stanford; On Walking On by Cole Swensen; After Nature by W.G. Sebald; The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Haas; One With Others by C.D. Wright. 

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