from SYNTHESIZING GRAVITY

KAY RYAN

Radiantly Indefensible 1. The central thing I want to think about is the mystery of—I want to call it profundity, which seems all wrong for Stevie Smith. But impact seems inadequate. No, it is inadequate; impact just means that one is struck; profundity means that when one is struck, one sees deep stars. So profundity. Stevie Smith’s poetry had a profound impact on me, how about that. I was looking for Stevie Smith, so hard. I turned over libraries and bookstores for years, trying to find her. I didn’t know her name or anything about her; I didn’t know what country she came from or what kind of poetry she would write or that it would have little drawings. All I could find was not-her. I would find a piece of something here and another one…

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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, May/June 2020

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