Books I read over and over, finding something new each time, moving my creases from poem to poem. I keep notes from Linda Gregg’s The Art of Finding taped along the edge of my computer screen.
“Finding: discovering the subject matter, locating the concrete details and images. Resonant sources, essences, vital force. Energy, equivalents, touchstones, amulets, buried seed, repositories, catalysts. Provoke, instigate, germinate, irradiate.”
These books for me are models and masters of this finding.
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
After the Body by Cleopatra Mathis
Lima::Limon by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Gluck