Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
“To Levitate…” by Cathryn Essinger
Cathryn Essinger
TO LEVITATE…
My mother swears she saw
my baby brother rise from his cot
one stormy night when
[...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
DARK CARD by Rebecca Foust
Review by Lo Galluccio
DARK CARD
By Rebecca Foust
Texas Review Press
English Department
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX, 77341-2146
ISBN# 13: 978-1-933896-14-4
2008, 36 pp., $8.95
www.tamu.edu/upress/
In Rebecca Foust’s first full-length poetry book, Dark Card, she creates a prism of experience, imagery and episode through which to describe and honor her relationship to her son’s struggle with Asperger’s Syndrome. The poems span [...]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
“Advice to a Writer Imagining Conception and Birth” by Colette Inez
Colette Inez
ADVICE TO A WRITER IMAGINING
CONCEPTION AND BIRTH
Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love,
examine the particulars, how your mother mounted
your father on Labor Day in a bungalow, Liberty, New York.
Describe a snowfall before your parents met. Take your time.
Leave out myth and literature. Relate it to life in an American
town, [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
“An Act of Procreation” by Frank Hughes
Frank Hughes
AN ACT OF PROCREATION
what beatings we have taken—
gave
what we have endures:
poverty, hunger, sickness,
spinal taps,
seizures,
stripped of privacy,
independence,
dignity
my rage
your vengeance
our dissembling
the gods against us
the void’s wide swallow
beneath us
the weight we lost to it
the nerves, stomach, and teeth
we lost to it
the you and me we lost to it
and i did unforgivable things
and you perfected a certain cruelty
and [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
“Halfway Down the Block, Your Father” by Lola Haskins
Lola Haskins
HALFWAY DOWN THE BLOCK, YOUR FATHER
Stops. It’s just congestion, he says.
I have congestion, not naming it—
his lungs as gauzy as a party dress—
explaining instead how the medic
at the VA had told him his heart
was as strong as any fullback’s.
We wait while he musters the air for
the next few steps, refusing the car,
with the stubbled [...]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
“Silk Woman” by Alan Fox
Alan Fox
SILK WOMAN
The silk which she loves
flows against her skin,
the white silk spun
from a cocoon of words,
spun and shimmering in her dark eyes
against dark skin
which tells her who she is
and who she is not,
am I the moth inside
her mouth where words
form, silk cocoon dark skin
against the words of need
I did not say love
until which of [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Poems, Tributes by Tim
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
THEORIES OF FALLING by Sandra Beasley
Review by Jeremy Voigt
THEORIES OF FALLING
By Sandra Beasley
New Issues Press
The College of Arts and Sciences
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
ISBN:-10:1-930974-74-4
64 pp., $14.00
http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/
Theories of Falling is a book about the body and the spirit. The wordplay in the title sets up poems that are concerned with both the spiritual fall of man and the physical pains of [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
“Tossing Hair” by Paul F. Cummins
Paul F. Cummins
TOSSING HAIR
She tosses back long black hair
A conductor-like sweep of the hand
Prefacing careful considerations with this
Gesture unconsciously graceful as waves
Of the tall Kansas grass
Wafting in the summer winds;
Stirring and rearranging the gravity
In our conference rooms and seminars,
Her gesture almost cloying in its cadences
Yet changing the very currents of our thought.
When her hair began [...]
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
“Dinner” by Pablo Garcia Casado
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Pablo Garcia Casado
—translated from the Spanish by Chris Michalski, performed by The CS Field Trio
DINNER
They stuff their mouths with food when they talk about
the house. When they talk about money and what it
takes to earn it. She walks through the rooms like a
queen. Points out the tablecloths, the [...]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
“Sterile” by Ash Bowen
Ash Bowen
STERILE
Your sister can’t stop hurting when she sees children
laughing. They coil in her dreams, knees raised
to their stomachs, feet stamping their rhythms.
She’s reminded of high school, how she pulled up
her dress in loneliness and a man laughed at her.
But never mind that. Her husband has his gun
collection out. He can’t stop pointing and clicking
the [...]
