Our Pushcart Prize selections are landmarks & lighthouses; they are wryly tragic & agonisingly gentle; they live with one foot in the ancestral & one in the visionary.
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As it leads you through a world where healing moves with the patience of river water, may Willows Wake & Walk Away offer you a place to rest, to reckon, & to rise once more.
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There’s a certain shame in confessing we are missing something—or missing within something.
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The knights keep watch as I try once again to name what can’t be named, to tell the story that keeps surviving me.
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Genre had to be invented, and it’s high time we start building artistic legacies beyond its walls.
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Bring us the dream you can’t wake from, & let us hold it under a while longer.
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The Sevdah issue shines best in its sideways revelations, exposing what we’ve always wanted in the shape of its absence.
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Psyche’s desperate desire for Cupid evokes sevdah, the human condition humming like a sad organ across a mythopoetic soundscape.
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Desire, for me, is a form of devotion. A sanctuary of melancholy in the lack of having. A shelter against frenzy. A prayer with no need for sound.
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The work of poetry is a perishing, hauntingly apprehended in the songs of sevdah.
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