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Sina Queyras talks to Poetry about her “Euphoria” poems. by The Editors

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Poems, Q&A here: from Euphoria by Sina Queyras

Here at Poetry we often think of T.S. Eliot’s notion that “poetry can communicate before it is understood.” We might go even further and say that to enjoy a poem in this sense—to respond bodily to its formal movement and sounds, the shape it cuts in the mind’s ear—is to understand it in some primary way. Some poems exist wholly on this plane, poems that seem not so much hostile to meaning as beautifully immune to it. In editorial meetings, after our initial recognition and appreciation of the formal values of a poem, we often find ourselves wondering about particular lines or stanzas in just the same way that our readers do. But one of the great perks we have here is that when we find ourselves puzzling over something in a poem, we can go straight to the source. This month, as part of our “Q & A Issue,” we’ve asked the award-winning Canadian poet (and 2010 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere), Sina Queryas about her work.