Forlorn Light by Nazifa Islam AK Blakemore ‘Informality and immediacy are vivid

‘Informality and immediacy are vivid ways to remake a world

Stunned by the world's silence in the face of this genocide

and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes

uncanny and otherworldly

Forlorn Light by Nazifa Islam AK Blakemore ‘Informality and immediacy are vividTo write these poems, I select a paragraph from a Woolf novelThe Waves or Mrs. Dallowayand only use the words from that paragraph to create a poem. I essentially write poems while doing a word search using Virginia Woolf as source material. I dont allow myself to repeat words, add words, or edit the language for tense or any other consideration. These poems are simultaneously defined by both Woolfs choices with language as well as my own. They feel