. This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is “Clues,” from Philip’s 1993 book She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (The Women’s Press Ltd). Wesleyan University Press will re-issue the book next year, with a new introduction from Evie Shockley, author of the new black. . Clues She gone—gone to where and don’t know looking for me…
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#tbt, Brenda Coultas, and the Subterranean Poetry Festival
by sgerton •
Brenda Coultas has been keeping busy after the release of her latest book, The Tatters! On Sunday, August 24th, she will be reading in the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, New York, as part of the 24th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival. . . This week’s TBT selection is “Dream Life in a case of Transvestism,” from Coultas’s…
#tbt: James Dickey, “Fox Blood”
by sgerton •
This week’s TBT selection is “Fox Blood,” from James Dickey’s 1965 collection Buckdancer’s Choice (1965), winner of the 1966 National Book Award. . Fox Blood Blood blister over my thumb-moon Rising, under clear still plastic Still rising strongly, on the rise Of unleashed dog-sounds: sound broke, Log opened. Moon rose Clear bright. Dark homeland Peeled backward, scrambling…
#tbt: Agha Shalid Ali, “Prayer Rug”
by sgerton •
This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is “Prayer Rug,” from Agha Shalid Ali’s 1987 collection The Half-Inch Himalayas (also available in a special-edition minibook). . . Prayer Rug Those intervals between the day’s five calls to prayer the women of the house pulling thick threads through vegetables rosaries of ginger of rustling peppers in autumn drying for winter…
#tbt: Andrea Werblin, “Arguing in Public”
by sgerton •
This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Andrea Werblin’s “Arguing in Public,” from Lullaby for One Fist (2001). . . . Arguing in Public Any plastic flower’s lame reach to heaven is any Dos Equis’ knowledge of terror, so you go a few rounds of proving emphatically nothing, grow up prickly and worn before you’ve gotten a chance…
#tbt: Rachel Zucker, “Letter [Persephone to Hades]”
by sgerton •
This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Rachel Zucker’s “Letter [Persephone to Hades]” from Eating in the Underworld (2003), a re-imagining of Greek myth. Both spare and lyrical, the poems are written as entries in Persephone’s diary and as letters between Persephone, Demeter, and Hades. Zucker also features in a recent New Yorker article by Dan Chiasson. . . LETTER [PERSEPHONE…
#tbt: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Worn Blues Refrain”
by sgerton •
This week’s TBT selection is “Worn Blues Refrain,” from Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ 2003 collection Outlandish Blues. Wesleyan is publishing her book, The Glory Gets, in Spring 2015. . . Worn Blues Refrain My father danced on Saturday mornings, turned his fat professor’s legs the wrong way. No rhythm self, tripping over Mama’s corns, his jitterbug like…
#tbt: Peter Gizzi, “The ethics of dust”
by sgerton •
This week’s TBT selection is Peter Gizzi’s “The Ethics of Dust” from Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003). You can find a review of Peter’s latest book, In Defense of Nothing, in the July/August issue of Boston Review. The ethics of dust to think I have written this poem before to think to…
#tbt: Phillip Levine, “Commanding Elephants”
by sgerton •
Last weeks’ #TBT poem was by the new U.S. Poet Laureate, Charles Wright. This week’s poem is by our previous Poet Laureate, Philip Levine, This week’s selection is “Commanding Elephants ” from Philip Levine’s Not This Pig (1968). . . COMMANDING ELEPHANTS Lonnie said before this, “I’m the chief of the elephants, I call the…
#TBT: “Delta Traveller” by our new Poet Laureate, Charles Wright
by selliott •
It’s Throwback Thursday, and also a day to celebrate the United States’ new Poet Laureate: Charles Wright. This week’s selection is “Delta Traveler,” from Charles Wright’s Country Music, Selected Early Poems. Delta Traveller —MWW, 1910–1964 Born in the quarter-night, brash Tongue on the tongueless ward, the moon down, The lake rising on schedule and Dr…
