What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
I have been thinking about this question since Cutlish came out. This year also saw the release of my hybrid memoir Antiman—which is prose, poetry, translation, transcription, and imaginative speculation. For me poetry calls the reader to explore their own associative mind, to follow how each line connect to the next—and it doesn’t have to be linear. In fact, we can abandon the need for linearity altogether and rely on our affective reservoirs to lead us into realization, and if we are lucky, transformation. For prose the elasticity of time and “story” are different. There is more space for the kinds of realizations that move the characters and so the relationship between representing the abstract through precision feels less heightened.
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