Archive for October, 2010
Monday, October 11th, 2010
“Grasp” by Bryan Maxwell
Bryan Maxwell GRASP It’s just a reflex she says, embarrassed that you have grasped her undersized stethoscope in your tiny palm and won’t let go, even as you appear to be dozing. She is bent somewhere between seated and upright, ready to leave but leashed by this rubber hose now taut against your pull. Even [...]
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
TEMPTATION BY WATER by Diane Lockward
Review by Barbara Daniels TEMPTATION BY WATER by Diane Lockward Wind Publications 600 Overbrook Drive Nicholasville KY 40356 IBSN 978-1-936138-12-8 2010, 93 pp., $15.00 http://windpub.com Temptation by Water, Diane Lockward’s fourth volume of poetry, is both fierce and funny. This lively new collection piercingly depicts loss but balances it with wit and genial good humor. [...]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2010
“America” by Racheline Maltese
Racheline Maltese AMERICA doesn’t feel safe; it feels like Starship Troopers and keeps inducing that same sort of nervous hysterical laughter as that film does. It’s the sound of helicopters and mothers on the radio listing off their sons in the military and asking for Walk Like an Egyptian because it’s the one stationed in [...]
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
“Metro, January 8″ by Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin METRO, JANUARY 8 across the rails, the man with long black hair and flashing eyes and a smile I’d have found devastating as the blond on his neck, voice full of flamenco and Lorca, castanets. She is as pale as he is darkly onyx, skin a creamy caramel. “I’ve seen you, yes often,” [...]
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
“The Cook’s Meditation” by Lenny Lianne
Lenny Lianne THE COOK’S MEDITATION I hate preparing the heart, a mass of muscle that slumps on the stone counter and waits, still and soundless, for me to wash it, remove the crimson veins and clots. For weeks I dream of the heart as a bell sleeping high in the body, waiting for strong hands [...]
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
“Epileptics Arrive on Christmas Day” by Steve Myers
Steve Myers EPILEPTICS ARRIVE ON CHRISTMAS DAY and none too soon. On the floor of the den, my stormstruck wife nods off at last, released from her rigor’s rhythm, collar loosened in the clonic weather of the seizure that came on at noon. The winter sun’s gone imprecise, windy, Zoroastrian. Only a jay that sips [...]
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
SLODKA WODA, SLONA WODA/SWEET WATER, SALT WATER by Lidia Kosk and Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
Review by Lalita Noronha-Blob SLODKA WODA, SLONA WODA/SWEET WATER, SALT WATER by Lidia Kosk, author, and Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka, translator and editor Three short stories translated by Wojciech Wisniewski, Jan Wisniewski, and Piotr Kosicki Astra, Lodz, Poland ISBN 978-8389727596 2009, 129 pp., $35.00 www.amazon.com Slodka Woda, Slona Woda/ Sweet Water, Salt Water is the second [...]
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
“Student Found Dead in Dorm Room” by Lisa Krueger
Lisa Krueger STUDENT FOUND DEAD IN DORM ROOM I imagine leaves outside her window with the edges of fall, a cool wind like back home in Ohio, but this is not home, this is all she ever dreamed of, worked for. This is schedules and curricula, plans she can’t fathom anymore, biochemical imbalance or not. [...]
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
“Homeboy Nomad” by Stephen Kessler
Stephen Kessler HOMEBOY NOMAD for Pierre Joris Sometimes I feel like a motherless tongue, an untongue- tied motherfucker un- able to lick the but- ton of my love mere- ly monolingually but must multiply my moves to include all the landscapes my restless lips have tra- versed in the course of roaming so many worlds [...]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
“Amaranth” by Gary Lechliter
Gary Lechliter AMARANTH When she refused her medication furniture flew around the house, books on suicide were scattered around, pantyhose covered her face. When she refused her medication whisky stained the tablecloth, the telephone was never answered, black mascara caked her eyebrows. The police took her to Osawatomie the day after she tried to water [...]
