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Ae Hee Lee is the author of two poetry chapbooks:
Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017) and
Dear bear, (Platypus Press, 2021). She holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has been published or is forthcoming at the New England Review, Narrative, Denver Quarterly, Southeast Review, and POETRY among others. She has also received scholarships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and the Glen Workshop.
INTRODUCTION
It took me a while to realize reading and writing were just another way of listening and engaging in conversation with people (myself included!), ideas, and sounds. However, one of the things I love about paper is its boundless patience. It respects that every reader and writer has their own pace (some run, others wade). Therefore, if I were to offer some advice to my younger self, I would tell her i
In the collection, Hayes acknowledges the poet Wanda Coleman (1946-2013) with “tremendous gratitude” for the term American Sonnet, and quotes an interview in which she interestingly describes how she would set the form as a writing assignment. “When asked for a definition she called poems jazz sonnets ‘with certain properties progression, improvisation, mimicry, etc,” he adds (Coleman’s American Sonnet 35 can be heard here) and concludes: “I decided to have fun to blow my soul.”
The “volta” is a key component in his own renovation of sonnet form, and this week’s poem takes the technique to soul-blowing extremes. It’s is a constant unfurling of voltas – “turns” or double-takes – conjured by raising the power of syntax over punctuation. If any reader is, like me, tempted to look for a credo, the poem keeps warning us to hold on.
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