Cynthia Cruz: Quotidian, Transcendent
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Cynthia Cruz introduces poems that mingle \\u201cthe everyday with the mystical, the unreasonable,\\u201d the poems' meaning and beauty transcending the words themselves. Cruz considers the urgency of the quotidian in Denis Johnson\\u2019s \\u201cThe Monk\\u2019s Insomnia,\\u201d the magical life a poem can carry within itself in Jon Anderson\\u2019s \\u201cFox,\\u201d and negation as a place of beginning in Orlando White\\u2019s \\u201cAts'\\xed\\xedsts'in.\\u201d To close, Cruz reads \\u201cHotel Letters,\\u201d a poem from a forthcoming collection.\\xa0
Listen to the full recordings of Johnson, Anderson, and White reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Denis Johnson (1993)
Jon Anderson (1978)
Orlando White, in a reading celebrating the anthology\\xa0Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas\\xa0(2011)