Archive for June, 2009
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
THE VEILED SUITE, THE COLLECTED POEMS by Agha Shahid Ali
Review by Sarah Wetzel-Fishman THE VEILED SUITE, THE COLLECTED POEMS by Agha Shahid Ali W.W. Norton & Co. 500 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. 10110 ISBN 978-0-393-06804-7 2009, 512 pp., $29.95 www.wwnorton.com “One more truth about the condition we call exile is that it accelerates tremendously one’s otherwise professional flight—or drift—into isolation, into an absolute [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in E-Reviews by Megan
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
“Rider” by Bruce Berger
Bruce Berger RIDER Son of the rodeo circuit, He clung from kick to kick Till demon Coors reduced him From trick rider to trick. One-night stand or an hour’s, It rustled him a few Bucks for a few more cool ones. What’s a poor cowboy to do? Nights getting rolled in the alleys, Other nights [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Poems,Tributes by Megan
Monday, June 8th, 2009
“Considering the Trebonites” by Dick Allen
Dick Allen CONSIDERING THE TREBONITES The world grew stranger…he had almost lost the feeling of being on a strange planet; here it returned upon him with desolating force. It was no longer ‘the world,’ scarcely even ‘a world’: it was a planet, a [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Poems by Megan
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Received for Review in May
If you’d like to review any of these books or literary journals (or any from the full list), let us know, and we’ll mail it to you. Write a review of at least 600 words, and if we publish it, we’ll also send you the forthcoming copy or any back issue of Rattle as payment. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Announcements,E-Reviews by Timothy Green
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
“On Submitting Poems: By Any Means Necessary” by Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen ON SUBMITTING POEMS: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY I wish I could tap together my ruby red L.L. Bean slippers and post questions to a Wizard of Oz Poetry Editor so I could unravel the esoteric truths and mysteries about what factors, what esthetics, he really considers when deciding whether or not to accept [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Essays by Timothy Green
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
“If You Give a Government Trapper a Roadkill Armadillo” by Robert A. Ayres
Robert A. Ayres IF YOU GIVE A GOVERNMENT TRAPPER A ROADKILL ARMADILLO If you give a government trapper a roadkill armadillo, he’s likely to take it home. And if he takes it home, and his wife’s not there, he’ll take it in the kitchen, stick it in her spaghetti pot— tail sticking out the top— [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Poems,Tributes by Megan
Friday, June 5th, 2009
DOG ROAD WOMAN by Allison Hedge Coke
Review by Moira Richards DOG ROAD WOMAN by Allison Hedge Coke Coffee House Press 79 Thirteenth Avenue NE Suite 110 Minneapolis, MN 55413 IBSN 978-1-56689-061-8 1997, 96 pp., $16.00 www.coffeehousepress.org Dog Road Woman is Allison Hedge Coke’s first full-length book of poems and with it she won the American Book Award in 1998. Previous winners [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in E-Reviews by Megan
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
“Scarlet” by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie SCARLET The barista’s acne is torrential— A perfect storm. Whatever potential She has for beauty has been obscured By the open wounds that resemble burns. And yet, as I look closer, I can see This young woman is quite pretty Behind her mask. Her eyes are turquoise, Not some common blue, and her [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Poems by Megan
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
“A Brief Introduction to Cowboy Poetry” by Rod Miller
Rod Miller A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO COWBOY POETRY, OR, WHO’S THE GUY IN THE BIG HAT AND WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? Long, long ago in a land called Texas, unemployed soldiers from the recent War Between the States rounded up herds of wild cattle and trailed them north to feed a hungry nation. Evenings [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Essays,Tributes by Timothy Green
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
“Semiotics” by Malcolm Alexander
Malcolm Alexander SEMIOTICS Ironic that within this sign, the outer circle of which symbolizes the joining of hands of all nations, looms a ready missile. Peace be damned, it middlefingers. If you want a piece of me, give it your best shot. So human nature yanks out from under us the gantry of human achievement. [...]
