The poet Marie Ponsot has always written at the top of her talent, which is at the top of the art. From the outset, she has imagined the making of a poem in its fullest sense. A poem for Ponsot is an object of sight and of sound, of thoughts and of feelings, a created field of interacting language and themes, composed of various voices and tones of voice. Ponsot requires that w (...)
December 18, 2009
Books
Between Silence & Sound
EasyMarie PonsotAlfred A. Knopf, $26, 82 pp.
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