Looking forward to them! And this was a lot of fun -- thanks for having me on

If you oversleep and get to the flamenco archive two hours before closing time, then you, too, might find yourself getting interviewed by BBC presenters in an empty hallway outside of a library in which you have been surreptitiously scanning pages from out-of-print books with your phone camera

The island of Orasaigh is the inspiration for a book I have a book out with @steveeely.bsky.social

Following two exhibitions, this unique collaboration between poet & photographer has been published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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www.ansolasoir.com/orasaigh

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Here's that lyric's most recent appearance, in a banger of a soleá by María Terremoto, who is one of the most talented flamenco singers alive right now: youtu.be/isSYu9sFKdk?...

If you're interested in checking out SEGUIRIYAS, here's a link to that: www.blackocean.org/catalog1/seg...

Some of it is just about commitment to the 'bit,' too. Like, devising the sentimental mis/redirection is one thing, but it's another thing to venture that deeply into the surreal/absurd and embrace the risk, knowing all the while that you can bring it back into the realm of the unspecified personal

This is the reason why everyone was trying to write like Young in the mid to late 2000s

Done!

In approaching the medieval troubadours, the question arises as to whether it's possible for the poet to express subjectivity beyond the arrangement of formal topoi. Meanwhile, we make an easy distinction between the modern poetic subject and the 'formal enclosure' that they select for their poem

I would submit that most of us don't really think about this enough.