transformation
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Polyphemus in Napa
Wikipedia Poem, No. 655 all that mighty oneself one sees stretch online glassed by the trees its easy eye and wine glasses lost in branches by the pain that’s remembered her sea bottom home for suede flash stupid save oneself from love you see selfless be come classless seawine in a park ing lot terrible…
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Jacob Frères Paints with Blood
Wikipedia Poem, No. 425 with blood we arrive by boat in his jacob frères desk long fibrous scaly noses but the ophrys morisii on his palace portraits of his jacob frères desk are long fibrous scaly noses but the flowers on his palace portraits of his palace with blood we arrive by boat in his…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 375
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“What Does It Mean?” by Czeslaw Milosz
It does not know it glitters It does not know it flies It does not know it is this not that. And, more and more often, agape, With my Gauloise dying out, Over a glass of red wine, I muse on the meaning of being this not that. Just as long ago, when I was…
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“Black Art” by Amiri Baraka
This weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, NJ. The weekend was fast-paced and my experience there included conversations with and readings from Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Kuusisto, Patrick Rosal, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Brian Turner, Rebecca Lindenberg, Bridget Talone, Dan Vera, C. Dale Young, Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Alex Lemon, Alberto…
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‘Black Art’ by Amiri Baraka
Amid the echoes of the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, N.J., a tapestry of voices—Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Kuusisto, Patrick Rosal, Rebecca Lindenberg, C. Dale Young, Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Alberto Rios, Brenda Shaughnessy, Rita Dove, Gary Snyder and more—wove through the weekend, each thread providing rich insights and lingering provocations on the nature of…