ALIVE IN THE ICE AND FIRE

KATIE FORD, SUSAN STEWART

A Conversation August, 2018 SUSAN STEWART As I read your books, including If You Have to Go, I am struck, as I’m sure any reader would be, by their existential immediacy. You write in time as you undergo time, taking up especially the unfolding of events under great forces of nature or state power. Your poems often emerge at the intersection of individual and collective suffering, including the suffering in your own life. To read your books in sequence is to engage, in myriad contexts, with issues of theodicy. I would like to know more about your sense of poetry as, at times, almost a ritual solace, a kind of lighting of a candle or gift of structure, and, at other times, as a plagued song—a practice with its own dangers. KATIE FORD…

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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2018

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