From a nice (if much too short) interview with the great new poet Vera [corrected] Pavlova:
There’s a line in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God
that reads: “She didn’t realize she was the world and the heavens
boiled down to a drop.” Your poems feel that way to me—tiny verses with
the glint of whole galaxies in them. How does this relate to the
purpose you find in poetry?I thank you for a nice quotation and for your subtle understanding
of my poems. Indeed, this is how I understand the purpose of poetry: to
boil the universe down to the size of a poem, a novel down to eight
lines. An ideal poem, just as the DNA, contains all the information
about its author.
I love this woman/poet. Is that wrong?
Here's another of her tiny masterpieces:
I broke your heart
now barefoot I tread
on shards
I believe you mean Vera Pavlova, not Anna Pavlova, the prima ballerina.
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Thanks again for recommending her to me, Kit. I wrote a bit about her work on my site:
http://www.robertpeake.com/archives/1013-if-there-is-something-to-desire-by-vera-pavlova.html
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