SHRIRAM SIVARAMAKRISHNAN: Five Anti-Poems
“The poems are ‘anti’ the way antique pieces are, which is to say, if these poems undermine meaning-making, it is because they have lost their significances.”
“The poems are ‘anti’ the way antique pieces are, which is to say, if these poems undermine meaning-making, it is because they have lost their significances.”
“Hongo’s connoisseurship arises as a kind of judicious and perceptive taste for the potential work and reach of beauty.”
—an appreciation by Major Jackson
“We all know how to hear, but Garrett makes us listen. Not just to the words, but to the music of poetry.”
by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
“To be a former student of Garrett Hongo’s is to pay him tribute whenever you meet another writer, whenever you speak about writing, about poetry, whenever you teach, whenever you sit down to write . . .”
by Michelle Peñaloza
“Hongo gives you an opportunity. It’s up to you to take it. And if you do, you’re either successful and the lessons continue, or they don’t. But at the very least, you always know where you stand.”
by Joshua Robbins
“The work of the song, as Garrett sings it, is to unfold the true name of the thing.”
by Jeffrey Schultz
POEMS Michael Bazzett, Jehanne Dubrow, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Danusha Laméris, Stanley Plumly, Arra L. Ross, Taije Silverman, Nance Van Winckel TRANSLATION Gemma Gorga, Háel Lopez COMIC Lauren Haldeman & Lisa Olstein VISUAL POEMS Octavio Quintanilla ESSAY Alberto Ríos
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