Archive for July, 2010
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
From “The Whole of Him Collected” by Gregory Loselle
Gregory Loselle from THE WHOLE OF HIM COLLECTED 10 The box of papers on the closet floor contains his discharge papers from the war, a couple letters, dog tags: amulets against prospective dangers, even bets on futures filed away, here; telegrams my grandmother amended in shorthand notes (“May God protect you,”) on their backs; her [...]
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
THE DARKENED TEMPLE by Mari L’Esperance
Review by Erica Goss THE DARKENED TEMPLE by Mari L’Esperance University of Nebraska Press 1111 Lincoln Mall Lincoln, NE 68988-0630 ISBN 978-8032-1847-5 2008, 79 pp., $16.95 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu The Darkened Temple, Mari L’Esperance’s first full-length book and the winner of the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, pivots on the disappearance of her mother, who [...]
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
“Beans” by John Paul O’Connor
John Paul O’Connor BEANS The way my father told the story, it wasn’t Jack who climbed the Beanstalk. It was my sister and I. We were very, very poor and my mother asked us to go sell the cow, whose part my father gave to our dog, Igor. How sad I felt for my mother, [...]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
“The Tuner” by Colette Inez
Colette Inez THE TUNER for E.C. Choose how the forest was deprived of a tree. Blight, wind, fire? I once lost a cantankerous man, who tuned pianos. Tall, an oak to me, he goaded music from the keys. I almost see him biting on his pipe, tamping down the London Dock. Blown back leaves, birds, [...]
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
“Knives of the Poets” by Jeff Knight
Jeff Knight KNIVES OF THE POETS The philosophers keep hammering, each to each. Editors choose scissors. Critics fancy the blunt: crowbars, mallets, and such. Poets like knives. It starts at about six in a fury of initials, hearts, and arrows jack-knifed into the flesh of trees (ash, sometimes; mostly elders). Understand that aimless whittling comes [...]
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
“Remember It Wrong” by David Hernandez
David Hernandez REMEMBER IT WRONG Everyone’s memory is subjective. If in three weeks we were both interviewed about what went on here tonight, we would both probably have very, very different stories. —James Frey on Larry King Live My front four teeth are gone, I have a [...]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
LIQUID LIKE THIS by Leslie Anne Mcilroy
Review by Michele Battiste LIQUID LIKE THIS by Leslie Anne Mcilroy Word Press PO Box 541106 Cincinnati, OH 45254-1106 ISBN 978-1-934999-16-5 2008, 84 pp., $18.00 www.word-press.com/ Leslie Anne Mcilroy begins Liquid Like This with an epigraph from Carole Maso: “Of course she goes too far./ There’s nowhere else for her to go.” These words function [...]
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
“How the Mirror Looks This Morning” by Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok HOW THE MIRROR LOOKS THIS MORNING Probably the size of the six volt made it seem life-giving. I had wires, a drawer of red and green and black wires in a thicket where socks belonged, I had this idea that a six volt battery would bring the cat back to life and cut [...]
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
“Any Hack Can Crank Out a Hundred Sonnets” by Stephen Kessler
Stephen Kessler ANY HACK CAN CRANK OUT A HUNDRED SONNETS Any hack can crank out a hundred sonnets if he has to; all you have to do is set up your metronome and start typing, taking dictation from the day’s small gifts, whatever presents itself in the street or dredges itself up from memory or [...]
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
“How to Be a Cowgirl in a Studio Apartment” by Carolyn Creedon
Carolyn Creedon HOW TO BE A COWGIRL IN A STUDIO APARTMENT Paint the ceiling blue and let it dry. See pamphlet “How to Paint a Ceiling.” Chalk a large circle to represent the sun. A light bulb will do as well. Start close to the sun and trace Mercury. Trace each planet. Finish with Pluto. [...]
