Tag: Pablo Neruda
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testamenting with Carolyn M. Rodgers
Over the summer, I got a chance to add to my forthcoming poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness, which will be published in 2019 by Airlie Press. This book is an expansion of my chapbook Corpus Christi Octaves (Flutter Press) and its series of lyric sequences about two late friends from my hometown in Texas. This new collection…
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new review at Poetry International!
Just a quick post to share my review of Zeina Hashem Beck’s latest poetry collection, Louder than Hearts (Bauhan Publishing, LLC, 2017) up now at Poetry International! In this review, I go into Beck’s own engagement with the work of Pablo Neruda and how her singular braiding of political awareness and personal intimacy creates compelling and…
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* autumning with jane hirshfield
Oyes en medio del otoño detonaciones amarillas? (In the middle of autumn do you hear yellow explosions?) — Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions * Neruda’s lines above evoke a pleasing moment of synesthesia, blurring the sight of yellow leaves with the sound of explosions. As the season changes, I can’t help but see such blurred…
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* singing with jim ferris
Poet of Cripples – Jim Ferris Let me be a poet of cripples, of hollow men and boys groping to be whole, of girls limping toward womanhood and women reaching back, all slipping and falling toward the cavern we carry within, our hidden void, a place for each to become full, whole, room of our…
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* skimming with kelli russell agodon
Reading through Kelli Russell Agodon’s collection, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, I was moved again and again by the kinship evoked between speaker and the poets addressed throughout the poems, but also between poet and craft, and poet to poet. In this week’s poem, “Yakima Ferry at Sunset,” this idea of kinship is there…
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* new online chapbook released!!!
“In the book of flight, plastic bags are brought in to do the work of clouds. Dead leaves rest in the margins. Grass clippings, eyelashes, fingernails: errata in the book of flight.” (José Angel Araguz from The Book of Flight) Happy to announce the release of my latest online chapbook The Book of Flight published by Essay…
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* questions with Pablo Neruda & Mary Oliver
XXXIII. And why is the sun such a bad friend to someone walking in the desert? And why is the sun so friendly in the hospital garden? Are these birds or fish here in nets of moonlight? Was it where they lost me that I was able to find myself? Pablo Neruda, from the Book…
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* translation 2/3 on the friday influence
(from Greguerias – Ramon Gomez de la Serna) * Curious about the earth, the sky keeps opening and closing the clouds. * The hour differs throughout the stars. In some it is yesterday, in others today, and in others centuries have passed. * He had a keyring so dusty, he looked like a fisherman of…
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* translation 1/3 on the friday influence
(from The Book of Questions – Pablo Neruda) * IV. How many churches in Heaven? Why does the shark not attack the indifferent sirens? Does smoke chat with the clouds? Is it true that all hopes should be watered with dew? XXIV. Is 4 the same 4 for all?…
The Friday Influence 