Tuesday Poem – 24
February 2015 with Fiona Apple
Over at Tuesday Poem this week, the poet
and novelist Zireaux — who has just
released a new novel called A Charlatan’s Orbit — discusses the
ghost poetry in the lyrics of the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, Fiona
Apple.
“One of the most
beautiful themes in poetry,” writes Zireaux about Apple’s song, Container,
“is that of the passively almighty. The powerfully weak. The noisy unnoticed. A
kind of stop-motion perspective in which things that appear silent and still
and locked in eternity — the ocean, the dead, the ancient rocks of Australia
(see that greatest of ghost stories, Picnic at Hanging Rock — can rise
up, knock us over, overwhelm our world with their substance. Apple’s poem
contains that kind of substance.”
You can discuss Container
and many other poems with Zireaux and the other Tuesday Poets by visiting TuesdayPoem.blogspot.com. We welcome new
readers!
Tuesday Poem is a collective
of 30 or so poets from around the world who share poetry every week.
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