S7 E47: En•Trance Journal 2 Poetry: Roxi Power talks with co-editor Dion O'Reilly

Roxi Power talks with co-editor Dion O’Reilly about poems in the second volume of En•Trance, an online journal about altered states, in particular, those that arise from entering “the lyric moment” in surreal and visionary poetry.  As always, we laugh, accepting “there is always more dark” as we enter the shadow in strangely humorous poems. In Liz Cambra’s “Survey,” she asks librarians, marmosets, anglerfish, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning whether they welcome “the return of the dark” when “volcanos shut off” in Iceland. Kim Adonnizio takes us on a journey into the chimeric dream images of childhood where “a man might be half-scorpion, a woman half fish” in “Kansas, 4:00am.”  We travel through the ears of a dreamer “like looking down a well-lit hallway into another room” in Sally Ashton’s “Form is the opposite of dream.”  And then we travel even further into earthly and unearthly realms, through the mythical soundscapes of Marc Vincenz’s “The First Gods,” seeing “omens/in the curdled milk/of the fat-tailed sheep.” Join us on our entrancing journey into the strange music ofpoetry where  “There is another world, and it’s this one.”  –Paul Éluard.  Entrancejournal.net