{"id":153663,"date":"2021-07-20T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=153663"},"modified":"2021-07-20T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:50:22","slug":"redux-mouth-is-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/20\/redux-mouth-is-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Mouth Is Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_153665\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1218\/the-art-of-poetry-no-76-robert-pinsky?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153665\" class=\"wp-image-153665 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pinksy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pinksy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pinksy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pinksy-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-153665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Pinsky.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re thinking about\u00a0mouths\u00a0and the breath. Read on for Robert Pinsky\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=43c068361b&amp;e=8280b4fa40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Shruti Swamy\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=ec2789fd43&amp;e=8280b4fa40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A House Is a Body<\/a>,\u201d and Helena Kaminski\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=67bd050597&amp;e=8280b4fa40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Face<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=a0fd9ca974&amp;e=8280b4fa40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. Or,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=9a8f3bde71&amp;e=8280b4fa40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">choose our new summer bundle<\/a>\u00a0and purchase a year\u2019s worth of\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The New York Review of Books<\/em>\u00a0for $99 (that\u2019s $50 in savings!).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=ac0b82edc6&amp;e=8280b4fa40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Pinsky, The Art of Poetry No. 76<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 144 (Fall 1997)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In\u00a0<em>Poetry and the World<\/em>, I wrote: \u201cPoetry is the most bodily of the arts.\u201d A couple of friends who read it in draft said, Well, Robert, you know \u2026\u00a0<em>dancing<\/em>\u00a0is probably more bodily than poetry. But I stubbornly left the passage that way without quite having worked out why I wanted to say it like that. Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them. After a while, I realized that for me the medium of poetry is the column of breath rising from the diaphragm to be shaped into meaning sounds inside the mouth. That is, poetry\u2019s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem\u2014a body, and not necessarily the body of the artist or an expert as in dance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7174\/a-house-is-a-body-shruti-swamy?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-153667 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/swamy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/swamy-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/swamy-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/swamy-1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=db51a302cd&amp;e=8280b4fa40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A House Is a Body<\/a><br \/>\nBy Shruti Swamy<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 225 (Summer 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As he was speaking last night, she could hear the water in his mouth\u2014his spit\u2014she could hear the sounds of the mouth that happened around the words, of the lips opening and closing, of the tongue sliding, and occasionally the click of teeth. Under the sound of the words was the sound of breath, the breath that carried those words, so at first it was difficult to hear them, the words, and when she did hear them there was so much space around them she thought, Well, I\u2019m okay. But later, only a little later, she realized that it had been shock. She had not let the words into her body. It was as though she had placed a pill on her tongue, could feel the weight of it there, but could not yet taste it. Alone, in the almost empty house\u2014for it had been late at night, and the girl was sleeping\u2014his words began to enter her: she tasted them, she felt the burning of their swallow, she felt them come into her bloodstream. She stood in front of the mirror. He had changed her, she wanted to see it. Her features were the same, but they had a different meaning now, she looked older and sour, and she saw the lines on either side of her mouth and traced them with her finger. The lines of her mother, her mother\u2019s sourness. Oh God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2247\/two-poems-helena-kaminski?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-153668 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kaminski.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kaminski.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kaminski-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kaminski-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=5a4f01a2cd&amp;e=8280b4fa40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Face<\/a><br \/>\nBy Helena Kaminski<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 118 (Spring 1991)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026\u00a0Was mouth good or pretty<br \/>\nBad? Was it<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n<p>Mouth, like Fidel<br \/>\nSpoke for five hours.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s late.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s very late.<\/p>\n<p>Damn it.<br \/>\nWho\u2019s in charge?<\/p>\n<p>Lip lies back<br \/>\nAlong the face,<br \/>\nDazed body at the beach<br \/>\nOn its pale towel.<\/p>\n<p>Why aren\u2019t they<br \/>\nWhere could<\/p>\n<p>Ask mouth.<br \/>\nMouth is boss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/flex\/TPR\/MAIN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-eight years\u2019 worth of archives. 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