Archive for April, 2010
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
AT THE THRESHOLD OF ALCHEMY by John Amen
Review by Willie James King AT THE THRESHOLD OF ALCHEMY by John Amen Presa Press P.O. Box 792 Rockford, Michigan 49341 ISBN 978-0-9800081-5-9 2009, 85 pp., $ 13.95 www.presapress.com “Purpose,” the first of 42 poems in At the Threshold of Alchemy, the third collection of poems by John Amen, is aptly placed, because the persona [...]
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
“In Praise of Laughter” by Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky IN PRAISE OF LAUGHTER Where days bend and straighten in a city that belongs to no nation but all the nations of wind, she spoke the speech of poplar trees— her ears trembling as she spoke, my Aunt Rose composed odes to barbershops, drugstores. Her soul walking on two feet, the soul or [...]
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Rachel Contreni Flynn
Rachel Contreni Flynn THE VIOLET ROOM Small bird in the rafters. Book buried in the hay bales. Harness rotting at the door. The days after my daughter’s birth I spent reading Hemingway in bed. Black flies roosted at the screens and the afternoons were bright: silence blasted in and I held still in the violet [...]
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
“There Is a Hole in My Living Room” by Manuel Paul Lopez
Manuel Paul Lopez THERE IS A HOLE IN MY LIVING ROOM for Macedonio, Manuel, and Fidencio There is a hole in my living room that my grandfather cannot climb out from. I bring him water sometimes, because I know he’s thirsty, because I know his medication dehydrates him, I know [...]
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
MELOPOEIA by Rhina P. Espaillat, Alfred Nicol and John Tavano
Review by Donald Mace Williams MELOPOEIA by Rhina P. Espaillat, Alfred Nicol, and John Tavano Rhina Espaillat 12 Charron Drive Newburyport, MA 01950 ASIN: B002Q76ZOK 2009, $15.00 www.amazon.com My Greek lexicon translates “melopoeia” as “a making of lyric poems or music.” In brief notes accompanying this CD, Rhina Espaillat says that in melopoeia the poetry [...]
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
“Feng Shui” by Tara Gorvine
Tara Gorvine FENG SHUI According to the laws of Feng Shui, a bed positioned to face the door is most inauspicious, being the same direction one is placed upon dying–feet pointed at the exit to ease the deceased on their journey. For years I refrained from folding my hands across my chest as I drifted [...]
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
“Nature Essay” by Ann Tweedy
Ann Tweedy NATURE ESSAY did you know, if you have a yard in the right climate, it’s probably patrolled by one male hummingbird? like the god who knows every hair on your head, this bird has memorized each flower in your yard, including the precise times at which their nectar cups fill up. in this [...]
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
“They Can’t Touch You” by Joe Pierre
Joe Pierre THEY CAN’T TOUCH YOU she says, I got a new job, it’s at this strip joint near the airport, but it’s classy, and he says, you’re kidding, right? she says no, she isn’t kidding, it pays $300 a night and the guys can’t [...]
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
“Accidental Death and Dismemberment” by Masarah Van Eyck
Masarah Van Eyck ACCIDENTAL DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT Both hands or both feet… $15,000 Entire sight of both eyes… $15,000 Life……………………$5,000 —from “Accidental Loss of Life and Dismemberment Benefits,” Sun Life Insurance Plan Browsing through the Accidental Death and Dismemberment pamphlet, I realize (at fifteen grand a pair) I might [...]
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
A VILLAGE LIFE by Louise Glück
Review by J. Scott Brownlee A VILLAGE LIFE by Louise Glück Farrar, Straus and Giroux 18 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011 ISBN 978-0-374-28374-2 2009, 72 pp., $23.00 http://us.macmillan.com/fsg.aspx After years of writing her own distinct poetry with little or no favorable recognition from critics, Louise Glück finally did, as she herself relates, “return [...]
