Maintenant #79 – Emanuella Amichai
I find that poetic forms exist in many different art forms: theatre, dance, film, photography and more. It could be a shot in a movie, or the way a dancer is moving, the way a light falls on a body on stage etc … It is a bit difficult to explain exactly what a poetic form is and there is no clear answer, I think, but I would say it has something to do with showing or hinting towards the invisible, visualizing the invisible, even the metaphysical.
In the 79th of the Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the Israeli video-poet Emanuella Amichai.
Christmas in Huntsville
The poems had something very visual and concrete and at the same time very open to visual interpretation and were inspiring for me. The poems had a sense of visual sensibility in them, like a very precise and clean detailed photograph. At times I felt I could literally see and feel them both visually and emotionally. And they had a sense of compassion and humor which I found very inviting.
By Emanuella Amichai.
Literary Melancholy
Much supposedly ambitious literary fiction, in attempting to distance itself from our marketized, neoliberalized, liberal-democratized world… has become as stylized as bad high-fantasy. I want to read books that are commensurable with this world, in content and form, books that have abandoned a whole repertoire of literary gestures but which still, in some way, respond to what literature once was. I want to read books that make a problem of their inheritance, a problem of coming somehow after literature. I want to read books that register a sense of their own belatedness.
Lars Iyer interviewed by David Winters.