From Poetry Northwest Winter & Spring 2020, "Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility," Alberto Ríos,
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The stronger reason to learn different languages, however, is to learn to walk in different geographies, of both place and imagination, the sometimes very different places we inhabit even if we live right next to each other.
From Poetry Northwest Winter & Spring 2020, "Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility," Alberto Ríos, www.poetrynw.org/magical-realism-and-the-sociology-of-possibility/ Culture is different; magic is different. At a distance, they are marvelous. Up close, things get messy: what, exactly, are we eating tonight?
From Poetry Northwest Winter & Spring 2020, "Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility," Alberto Ríos, www.poetrynw.org/magical-realism-and-the-sociology-of-possibility/ Magical Realism is not so much about ghosts as possibility; not so much about the strange as a value judgment as the personal in actual experience; not so much about science as singular circumstance, what might be called personal science. It is a literature in continual exception to the rule, whatever the rule may be. In this country, we think of ourselves as founded upon precepts of individualism, while at the same time individualism—or difference, which is what that really means—is what scares us most.
From Poetry Northwest Winter & Spring 2020, "Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility," Alberto Ríos, www.poetrynw.org/magical-realism-and-the-sociology-of-possibility/ Given the fury at times on the sea's surface, it is hard to imagine that beneath this wet violence, all is tranquil. A submarine need only descend to 150 yards beneath a hurricanne to reach calm seas.
From How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley So, truth be told, I give almost nary a shit about the hatred of poetry given the abundant and diverse and daily evidence to the contrary.
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