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“[The Congo] is the heartbeat of the world, and it’s never recognized as a central heartbeat,” says Will Alexander about the focus of his most recent collection, Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021), a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, in this Poetry.LA interview with Douglas Manuel about the intuition he follows for his writing. “I’m not colonized by cognitive expertise,” says Alexander.
Tags: Poetry | Will Alexander | Refractive Africa | New Directions | 2021 | Pulitzer Prize | Poetry.LA interview series | Douglas Manuel | 2022