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Everywhere Here and In Brooklyn
(A Four Quartets)
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As a conceptual process I took every phrase in Eliot’s poem and wrote what I considered to be its energetic opposite: for example, translating 20th century references to the 21st century and updating what I felt were the more obscure allusions. I transposed his “East Coker” and “Little Gidding” to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, my neighborhood of fifteen years. Like a sound wave, the poem started vibrating to other locations that were meaningful to my conscious antennae at the time such as Puget Sound and the Gulf of Mexico.
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An except was published in Brooklyn Poets:
http://brooklynpoets.org/poet/kristin-prevallet/
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