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Ox that I saw in my childhood, as you steamedin the burning gold on the Nicaraguan sun,there on the rich plantation filled with tropicalharmonies; woodland dove, of the woods that sangwith the sound of the wind, of axes, of birds and wild bulls:I salute you both, because you are both my life. You, heavy ox,…
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Thank you NetGalley and University of Iowa Press for the ARC of “Full-Time Mammal” by Rennie Ament. This is a great collection of free verse poetry. Rennie Ament writes in a direct, take-charge voice that keeps readers engaged and wanting to know what she will say next. I really like the poem “Now” at the…
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‘We are sending you, dear flowers, Forth alone to die, Where your gentle sisters may not weep O’er the cold graves where you lie; But you go to bring them fadeless life In the bright homes where they dwell, And you softly smile that ‘t is so, As we sadly sing farewell. O plead with…
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Here is another collections of books I have recently read, courtesy of NetGalley. *** Dark is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce This book is creepy as hell. Not quite nightmare-inducing, but not far from it. When Hazel returns to her hometown following a failed marriage, she is struggling to adapt to the next…
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The cries of the wild geese are spring,are returningwarmth and growth and light,are the promise of apples ripening on the branchand crickets singing in the summer night,are hope in flight. Every year I hear them I am olderand yet reborn –each year is another step closer to the last, and yetalso, somehow, a new dawn,a…
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I first read Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers in college and I was absolutely enthralled. This was poetry I had never seen before, formless and unstructured. It struck me in a way I couldn’t explain, and changed how I wrote poetry. A month from now. A week from now. Tomorrow. When he goes.…
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As usual, I have managed to read faster than I write, and I have fallen behind on my NetGalley reviews. Here is a handful for you to peruse and see if any appeal to you. More are to come over the next few days! *** Traversal by Maria Popova I have been a fan of…
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I came here so that theI came to be equal in surprise toI came empty-handed before being driedI am a poisonous epochI was at four a shape of love and reasonI was at fifteen capable of heinous pityI’m not so foolish as toI think at 34 that I know who the best poets areI saw…
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You promised to send me some violets. Did you forget? White ones and blue ones from under the orchard hedge? Sweet dark purple, and white ones mixed for a pledge Of our early love that hardly has opened yet. Here there’s an almond tree—you have never seen Such a one in the north—it flowers on…
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I grew up in a town bordered by the Connecticut River; in fact, I drive over it every day on my way to and from work. Soon I will be moving to a town without the river as a neighbor, where instead I will be bordered by farm fields rather than the river that feeds…
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