Unveiling Secrets: Claudia Castro Luna Reveals the Hidden Story Behind The Flowers Along the Way
CCL: I don’t think of myself as a maximalist, but I see your point, and yes, for the accordion books, exuberant would be the correct word — they are overflowing with expression owing to the shape of the book, the form. Normally I tend to compress a lot in my poems. The book of poems coming out this spring (Eleven Questions for a Tree from Skipstone), has poems that are very short and concise. For The Flowers Along the Way, I was trying to show how lush and beautiful El Salvador is. I wanted a feeling of expansiveness and not a feeling of constriction, of being afraid, which was real of course, but I wanted the lushness and beauty to prevail.
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