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For Lack
of Percocet, dirt out the window. Dirt at the window, loud as mirrors. Dirt out my window. Dirt at my window. That gnawed-on quality of tickets or of skin.
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Graham Foust, contributor
Suggested Reading The View from the Gazebo, poems by Marianne Boruch Name, poems by Alan Davies The Cloud of Knowable Things, poems by Elaine Equi Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight, essays by Alan Gilbert Last Chance for Eden, essays/reviews by Christopher Knight Adventures, poems by Lauren Levin Each Real Bird, poems […]
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Untitled
Storm-torn & tide-worn stalking the sea-wall walking the water’s edge all weathers
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Natural
With what nature there is in us an uneasy truce, we are prone to consider what is natural, as if it were. A man appears to stop, the car at the edge of his vision, drawn to where the unlikely meets the abrupt vertical of the apparent green opacity left to forest, a wall beseiged […]
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Sam Ward, contributor
Suggested Reading No Public Language: Selected Poems 1975-1995, by Ken Edwards (Shearsman) Cennau’s Bell: Poems 1980-2001, by Graham Hartill (The Collective Press) A Sinner Saved by Grace, poems by Michael Haslam (Arc) Collected Poems, by Lynette Roberts (Carcanet) Sonata, poems by Maurice Scully (Reality Street) Le Fanu’s Ghost, poems by Gavin Selerie (Five Seasons Press) […]
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On Norman Finkelstein’s Lyrical Interference
Lyrical Interference, essays by Norman Finkelstein Spuyten Duyvil (ISBN# 0-9720662-2-5); 145 pages. $12.00. Let’s talk about voice, a redundant activity, perhaps, but since we are on the page or, more properly on the screen, the task takes on a different dimension. The critic’s voice and the poet’s are by nature distinct. Tone, texture, and analysis […]
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On Peter O’Leary’s Depth Theology
Depth Theology, poems by Peter O’Leary. University of Georgia Press (ISBN# 0-8203280-6-5); 72pages. $16.95. In the exhaustive Notes and Acknowledgements of this volume, Peter O’Leary instructs that his crib from Jung’s colleague Eugen Bleuler’s term "depth psychology" is venting its purposes towards an altogether different league of meanings: "I take depth theology, then, to be […]