“A Typhoon Blues”
Collaborators’ Q&A Why did this piece of art resonate for you or seem like it would give you an avenue into writing about Typhoon Haiyan? Poet Wesley Rothman: This piece creates a tone and an atmosphere: clouded, submerged, forceful, luminous. It’s an impression and I felt how relentless a typhoon and its aftermath can be, how there’s a visceral stunning in the devastation and resilience of being human, of dying and surviving at the same …