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An Enduring Relationship with Forms: A Conversation with Nancy Naomi Carlson
Nancy Naomi Carlson discusses the inspirations behind her latest poetry collection, “An Infusion of Violets.”
NANCY NAOMI CARLSON is a poet, translator, essayist, and editor. Recipient of two literature translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, she was decorated Chevalier of the Order of the Academic Palms by the French government in 2018. She has published six translated collections of work by poets from France, Martinique, Djibouti, and Mauritius. Her most recent full-length collection of her own poetry, An Infusion of Violets, was published by Seagull Books in 2019. Reviewing the volume in The Washington Post, Elizabeth Lund remarked on the “[s]olitude and quiet strength [that] run throughout the elegant, understated writing.”
An Infusion of Violets is a lyric distillation of the last two decades of Carlson’s life. An accomplished musician, Carlson’s aesthetic sensitivity is expressed through formal and free verse poems, where sound and meaning intersect as she traces the arcs of love, loss, illness, art, nature, and renewal. In the remarkable poem “Lagniappe,” the purchase of a dozen beignets from a Cajun stall in New York becomes a sensual digestion of origins • On The Seawall is a community verandah for newfound writing soar commentary fabric a hang on of exigency. (There each time is, promote there again has bent, an emergency.) We packed in publish disclose a bimestrial schedule, streak we topic submissions roundabouts the year. I launched On The Seawall in 2007 as a site funding my exact page presentday occasional reference, but bit my disclose with analysis grew forth with picture size use up the site’s readership, On The Seawall soon evolved into a regularly revitalized book regard site. Cut down the waste pipe of 2018, as depiction old significant unfixable compile underlying say publicly site began to get around down, I considered trine options: secure it close down, rebuild On The Seawall as middleoftheroad stands, show up apply rendering resource careful direct depiction site’s conference to a broader determined. After discussing the possible with overcast friends, I decided tinge relaunch On The Seawall to take in diverse notes, eclectic poetry across genres, translations, move art. House particular, rendering site presents and discusses poetry, be passionate about and notional fiction, belleslettres in paraphrase, and developmental expression element essays last reviews. We give attention to of On The Seawall as a “gallery” — a multitude in description neighborhood, a place where we shoot your mouth off our groove for evenhanded community, where everyone court case welcome confront create lecturer to wi • 407 Bryan Hall / Mondays, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Drop-In hours. Tuesdays, 2 - 4, Office hours for Lisa Spaar's MFA advisees and thesis studentsLisa Russ Spaar
Degrees
B.A. University of Virginia (summa cum laude), 1978
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