An excerpt:
When the author provides answers to these questions, the reader is forced to slow down and reflect knowing that the clock is ticking in the background and the reader is racing against the author’s own line of thinking.
Surely it’s the heart before the course
revolutionary suicide,
sun sets and rises
and no reason
to see the clock’s hands before noon.
When Garcia asks, “This is the body to sing?” it is more a challenge than a question, for, as they write, this is a “song sung by heart.” If one fails to challenge or mediate the pace set by normative standards, then, it would seem, one is all the more likely to get swept up in it. The first section ends with the same cup of coffee that started this meditation; quickly collapsing the time it took for the reader to traverse those pages.
To read the full interview go to Glass: A Journal of Poetry.
http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/reviews/dechae-garcia.html
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