Dec 16, 2020
I don’t always know what I think until I say it
I don’t always know what I think until I say it and then I say it again to commit it to memory — Adèle Barclay, Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood Editions, October 19, 2019)
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I don’t always know what I think until I say it
I don’t always know what I think until I say it and then I say it again to commit it to memory — Adèle Barclay, Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood Editions, October 19, 2019)
made this poster for fine. coming up later this month in Vancouver, thank you to art director Cole Nowicki!
Small poems do a lot of heavy lifting and they’re hard to pin down. They counter rules about narrative and metaphor and conceit; they can be quite radical because they’re saying: this is all you need. This is all this poem is, nothing more. Short poems are such a fuck you.
Adele Barclay