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George Seferis (1900-1971)
“But to say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years and years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again. ” Seferis, as quoted in Mary Ruefle’s “Madness, Rack, and Honey”, p. 191.
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Jill Soloway
mechanical arm lowers raises capable wavy red hair pink skin dry brown desert crunch so what? sliced blue cow the transforming grill blanket warm skin so what if you’re wrong? now you want to make art with cacti shriveling in the sunset? that’s the worst thing you could have said what do you do with a want who’s…
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Going to Minsk
Wikipedia Poem, No. 481 dough stuck to eat (or stop cannibalizing it never ends all the dumplings will never end all like a black rabbit head such improbable writing plastic trimming never ending all like a rebus poem the throat himself (or a stand-in for the paris review facebook page someone somewhere must care about…
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Gender Politics
Wikipedia Poem, No. 472 to be loved eyes closed of pain it is just like you not like you nothing flat traced with a number two pencil nothing vested in hydrangeas something more like cutting something black ravage to be loved afraid of course cutting a slow-covered kitchen knife something more we will be loved…
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Fuck You Fortune Cookie
Wikipedia Poem, No. 456 to recollect clean one’s head put out out of it forget forgot dismiss dismissed dismiss dismissing missing dismiss dismiss disrecollection of have no recall be un headless put out out of it forget dismiss dismissed disrecollection of have no more of wean one’s head put it out it goes let bygones…
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People Are Forming Various Sentences with Their Bodies
Wikipedia Poem, No. 455 After Ron Padgett there is no rush dear cognitively certain your lover enough water tells me you were born last month we’ve eaten too much sugar and our birthday was two days enough time to drink we’ve eaten too much sugar and our birthday was two days enough time to indict…
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“Stray Beast” by Sarah Jean Grimm
I cannot recommend highly enough Sarah Jean Grimm‘s “Soft Focus” from Metatron out of Montreal. The poem above grabbed me by the throat. I still have the finger marks from last night’s reading. Buy the book (might I suggest the entire Spring 2017 catalog?) and support great, living poets.
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Polymer
Wikipedia Poem, No. 447 considers well-produced risk how far is too too far is too far so far balanced well-produced eye real human skin simple ethical boundaries thrilling well-adjusted someone balanced tests my mind well-adjusted too far balance test my conservative mind well-produced polymers risk produced conservative polymers risk well-produced polymers risk eye read as human…
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The Heart Has Seven Miuntes
Wikipedia Poem, No. 442 after Ron Padgett bliss pure of minutes seven woodpecker woody with minutes seven has heart the boring never minutes seven only last you way the love i dissipating dust invisible of clouds and air the in lines speed fast real away fly and laugh and person bad a of head the…
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