Tag: Aries
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* new book review at the volta blog!
Just a quick post to share my latest book review. This time around, I am review Urayoán Noel’s stellar book, Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico. To learn more about this talented, multi-platform poet, check out his site. See you Friday! José
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jim harrison remembered
David – Jim Harrison He is young. The father is dead. Outside, a cold November night, the mourner’s cars are parked upon the lawn; beneath the porch light three brothers talk to three sons and shiver without knowing it. His mind’s all black thickets and blood; he knows flesh slips quietly off the bone, he…
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* layers via michael s. harper & basho
Village Blues – Michael S. Harper The birds flit in the blue palms, the can workers wait, the man hangs twenty feet above; he must come down; they wait for the priest. The flies ride on the carcass, which sways like a cork in a circle. The easter light pulls hims west. The priest…
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* a meditation on brevity with paz, ritsos, & carruth
Writing – Octavio Paz I draw these letters as the day draws its images and blows over them and does not return It’s suiting to begin this meditation on brevity with Paz who once said that he admired the short lyric for being the hardest kind of poem to write. Anyone who’s worked out…
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* congregating with tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer’s recent passing has me reading back into his work. Always, I am taken in by the immediacy of his line. In this week’s poem, “The Scattered Congregation,” this immediacy plays out in quick turns. Whether in nuanced phrase or illuminating flash of image, Tranströmer always makes me a believer. Makes me proud to be…
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* (re)noting the hidden things via shin kyeong-nim
Not that anybody needs another reminder of what snow looks like, but here: There’s been plenty of the cold stuff these past few months. Heading into March, I’m waiting for spring to arrive – yet I can’t help but type that and immediately note that I can’t exactly remember what it was like without snow.…
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* the 200th post: a cento
Well, it had to happen: we’ve reached the 200th post on this blog! To celebrate, I decided to create a cento – a patchwork poem made by selecting lines from other people’s poems to create a singular poem (citing one’s sources, of course) – by going through all the posts published since I started this…
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* stitching along with valerie wallace
I came across this week’s poem – “Winged” by Valerie Wallace – reading through the latest issue of Rust + Moth. I was taken in by the Auden reference to the “old masters” from his poem Musee des Beaux Arts. I find the reference suiting since the impetus for Wallace’s poem comes from Alexander McQueen, whom…
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* wintering with tomas tranströmer
We’ve had some steady days of clouds making their way over us. The early mornings have been looking something like this: In my work, I’ve been working with repetition in some recent poems of mine, trying to incorporate repeating words and images conceptually. The poem below by Tomas Tranströmer is a good model for what I…
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