Who says that fences are part of neighborliness? Darrel Alejandro Holnes’ poem responds to this idea of Robert Frost’s with artistry, verve, and critique.
Guest
The Valley. His debut essay collection
Before the Earth Devours Us will be published by Split/Lip Press in late 2021. He is the Interviews Editor for the
EcoTheo Review, an Assistant Poetry Editor for
AGNI, and a regular reviews contributor for
Heavy Feather Review. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Transcript
music: “Praise the Rain” by Gautam Srikishan]
Pádraig Ó Tuama: My name is Pádraig Ó Tuama, and for years I had a recurring dream. The dream was always that I was about to walk into a large cave and that I knew that something waited for me in the cave and that I was very frightened. And the whole dream would be building up and building up to getting to that mouth of the cave, going in or waiting or not. And then I’d wake up. And something happened to me, when I began to go into that cave, in my poems, in my imagination, even. Something new occurred.
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