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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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between behemoth granite shafts, shove my body by their force, leave me roadside and wandering fields. Little is funny when you’re Chicana and walking a Civil War site not meant for walking. Regardless, I ask park rangers and guides for stories on Mexican soldiers, receive shrugs. No evidence in statues or statistics. In the cemetery, not one Spanish name. I’m alone in the wine shop. It’s the same in the post office, the market, the antique shop with KKK books on display. In the peach orchard, I prepare a séance, sit cross-legged in grass, and hold ....
Transcript Pádraig Ó Tuama: My name is Pádraig Ó Tuama. And when I was a teenager, late one evening I saw my father come into the kitchen, grab a slice of bread, and eat it. I think his blood sugar had dropped. And there was so much about that moment that struck me. I was a teenager with angst about myself and everybody around me, and noticing a moment of vulnerability in somebody else struck me. And I think that was telling me I needed to be a poet, because I had to do something with what I’d seen. And over and over again, the more I’ve written poetry and read poetry, the more I realize that moments, simple, observed moments, are calling out to be written about. ....
jouissance, chipotles in the chocolate. Consider the uvular awakenings Your name spun through the reel, wound up from the bass of me. How I want to say it, and hear my own, again. for Matthew” music: “Ashed to Air” by Gautam Srikishan] I read this poem because it so immediately appealed to me with gorgeous words. I mean, I love the word “delicious.” I love the word “gorgeous.” I love the word “knuckle.” But I think this poem is a poem perhaps where the poet, Vievee Francis, was thinking, “What are my favorite words?” And she might have made a list. I’m just guessing, so it could be totally wrong. But it feels like, to me, that the prompt or the intuition or idea behind this poem is that she might have made a list of some of her favorite words and then thought, “Let me put them into a poem.” And I just thought that was such a delightful thing to do, and I found myself immediately thinking, what words would I write, if I w ....