Archive for November, 2010
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
SANCTIFICUM by Chris Abani
Review by Darla Himeles SANCTIFICUM by Chris Abani Copper Canyon Press Post Office Box 271 Port Townsend, Washington 98368 ISBN 978-155659-316-1 2010, 105 pp., $15.00 www.coppercanyonpress.org After falling in love with Chris Abani’s Hands Washing Water (2006, Copper Canyon Press), I was eager to get my hands on his latest poetry collection, Sanctificum. Sanctificum lifts [...]
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
“Tattoo” by Todd Davis
Todd Davis TATTOO Try telling the boy who’s just had his girlfriend’s name cut into his arm that there’s slippage between the signifier and the signified. Or better yet explain to the girl who watched in the mirror as the tattoo artist stitched the word for her father’s name (on earth as in heaven) across [...]
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
“Detached Concern” by Jack Coulehan
Jack Coulehan DETACHED CONCERN My doctor’s not engaged enough to touch my hand. I wonder where her feelings are, the human stuff. My doctor doesn’t take much guff from wimps like me. Whatever care she gages up, it’s not enough. Detached concern is less than tough. It’s thin and weak and pulses, bare. The human [...]
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
“When You’re Afraid…” by Gregory Orr
Gregory Orr * When you’re afraid You’re afraid Of something. When you dread, It’s Nothing That you dread (so the philosopher said). Nothing Can be Terrifying. But don’t get Confused: a blank Page in the Book Isn’t Nothing. It’s something Waiting to happen, It’s the beloved Holding her breath, Hoping you’ll write or call. –from [...]
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
“Driving into Dusk” by M.Quickmon Willis
M. Quickmon Willis DRIVING INTO DUSK for Willie James King Along the back-roads short-cut home, the sun on the brink of something catastrophic, a sabotage or suicide of sorts, that daily death of this world’s only phoenix. Our beloved star bedding down again, like some beast of the field, in brilliant conflagration just beyond the [...]
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Monday, November 15th, 2010
HETEROTOPIA by Lesley Wheeler
Reviewed by Moira Richards HETEROTOPIA by Lesley Wheeler Barrow Street Press, 2010 PO Box 1831 Murray Hill Station New York, NY 10156 ISBN-13: 978-0-9819876-2-0. 77 pages, US$ 16.95 www.barrowstreet.org The title piece of Lesley Wheeler’s collection comprises a short selection of quotes followed by six untitled but numbered poems, each one a different form, and [...]
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
“The Body” by Nancy White
Nancy White THE BODY The forgetting of that time is a long hollow tube in my mind. My own body was like that cry you think you hear in the quiet but decide you must have imagined. Spelling tests, yes, and a brass bell. The day they called the girls out as if we’d all [...]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2010
“Sabbath at Starbucks in Los Gatos” by Sim Warkov
Sim Warkov SABBATH AT STARBUCKS IN LOS GATOS and lanky fillies in low-slung jeans swish by my table Asian tattoos two inches above the cleft abs taut as all hell and I rally to their full-frontal views and I’m in awe of these fragrant pagans flaunting their youth arm’s length from small-town Daddy Mommy Father [...]
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Friday, November 12th, 2010
“The Invention of How” by Thom Ward
Thom Ward THE INVENTION OF HOW No algebra or chemistry equations required. Each Sunday at precisely seven a.m., he walked through the automatic doors of the giant, automatic supermarket, pushing a shopping cart full of potatoes, milk, bread, cheese and peanut butter, napkins and chicken cutlets, dozens of items for the cupboards, freezer and fridge. [...]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
“Clean” by Jeff Vande Zande
Jeff Vande Zande CLEAN Her small body shines with water and light. Giggling, she squeals daddy, splashes until his pants darken. Five more minutes, he thinks, stepping out quickly, pouring himself a drink, not expecting to return to find her slipped under, her tiny face staring up through the undulating surface. Before he can move, [...]
