How to make 'thoughts and prayers' meaningful:
As I wait to meet Alissa Quart in the lobby of the Norwood Club in Chelsea,"Thoughts and Prayers," the 2018 single from jazz singer Ann Hampton Callaway starts playing over the sound system. It's one of those stranger-than-fiction coincidences, considering Quart's newly released collection of poetry also shares the charged platitude as its title.
Having reported extensively on abortion rights while working with Maisie Crow on the award-winning documentaries The Last Clinic and Jackson , Quart filtered dozens of interviews with women she spoke with for the projects into the poem"Clinic." The resulting piece is a poignant nine-part tableau that blurs the lines between verse and reportage.
At the core of Quart's poetry, for all its whirring machinery and institutional antagonism, is the human element; the depiction of"Women afraid of dying while/ they are trying to find their life" in"Clinic," for instance, is especially heartrending given its basis in real life.
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