The Sealey Challenge Day 3! Planet Drill by Jessica Laser
I feel that I'm cheating a lot this year--but I do every year. I bought a stack, a large stack of books in Iowa City and I've been teaching from them each week. For full transparency, I will be post next week from two separate archeology digs. So, the reading will have been done prior.
I taught Planet Drill, and I do not know how to full understand the poems yet. I used the form, title poem, "Planet Drill" as an example of using repetition with intention. Works that jumped from hers were excellent and I will always be grateful. I also taught "Lust after Eternity." The wordplay and perspective play were marvelous and while I cannot be certain of anything--I know my students were able to see how dexterous language could be. I suggest this book for the range of diction and word usage--how everything goes together. By deconstructing her language, I was able to see how I deconstructed language in my own poems.
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