atropa belladonna
limn this libertine with smoke and orchids; bind her errant limbs with sleepy vine. her mien is hesperanthæ, long with st. martin’s summer, eyes of dusk, features drawn in mulled wine. a voice of...
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She is inexorable comings of better things; (like the laughter of children, playing in the ashes of a stormcloud, vanquish’d) and She is a terrible pressure (and relief) that fixes rivers gone astray,...
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Say Goodnight, Grace Notes
Say Goodnight, Grace Notes by Jack McCarthy Publisher: EM Press Year: 2003 Pages: 108 Some readers may be aware of my intense admiration for Mike Kadela. He has a book out on EM Press, a small...
View ArticlePlatypodes
depending on the state of reference, the duck-billed platypus is either— the last evidence of God’s great sense of humour – or – an ikon of general Antipodal alienness – or – an egg-laying emblem of...
View Articleid est ‘a poem about hands’
a five-legged creature, violently still upon a binding chord of minor keys, befitting major locks, has with its muted exhortations cloven wax from wick and rue from blight and sea from salt. a leaf of...
View Articlethe bleeding beat
the bleeding beat, it sows so sweet a misery that only jumps its sombre pace when landing at her feet. But Oh! What Dreadful Havoc /Her countenance Hath She Wrought /a cannonball Upon the Ramparts /to...
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1 hundred hiccups
1 hundred hiccups by Michael Kadela Publisher: EM Press Year: 2002 Pages: 134 1 hundred hiccups is a book of poetry by a semi-local poet of my (very general) acquaintance. Actually, my (signed) copy...
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Posthumous Keats
Posthumous Keats by Stanley Plumly Publisher: W.W. Norton Year: 2008/2009 Pages: 400 Here is the answer to what is perhaps a burning question: what happens when poets write biographies? Stanley Plumly...
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The Book of Psalms
The Book of Psalms: A Translation With Commentary trans. Robert Alter Publisher: W.W. Norton Year: 2007/2009 Pages: 560 Any time one deals with a book which has been translated, you’re opening up a...
View Articlemy father moved through dooms of love
Eric Gunnink, 12/18/1956-5/29/2008. my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give, singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height this...
View Articleatropa belladonna
limn this libertine with smoke and orchids; bind her errant limbs with sleepy vine. her mien is hesperanthæ, long with st. martin’s summer, eyes of dusk, features drawn in mulled wine. a voice of...
View Articleæm xii {a stormcloud, vanquish’d}
She is inexorable comings of better things; (like the laughter of children, playing in the ashes of a stormcloud, vanquish’d) and She is a terrible pressure (and relief) that fixes rivers gone astray,...
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Say Goodnight, Grace Notes
Say Goodnight, Grace Notes by Jack McCarthy Publisher: EM Press Year: 2003 Pages: 108 Some readers may be aware of my intense admiration for Mike Kadela. He has a book out on EM Press, a small...
View ArticlePlatypodes
depending on the state of reference, the duck-billed platypus is either— the last evidence of God’s great sense of humour – or – an ikon of general Antipodal alienness – or – an egg-laying emblem of...
View Articleid est ‘a poem about hands’
a five-legged creature, violently still upon a binding chord of minor keys, befitting major locks, has with its muted exhortations cloven wax from wick and rue from blight and sea from salt. a leaf of...
View Articlethe bleeding beat
the bleeding beat, it sows so sweet a misery that only jumps its sombre pace when landing at her feet. But Oh! What Dreadful Havoc /Her countenance Hath She Wrought /a cannonball Upon the Ramparts /to...
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1 hundred hiccups
1 hundred hiccups by Michael Kadela Publisher: EM Press Year: 2002 Pages: 134 1 hundred hiccups is a book of poetry by a semi-local poet of my (very general) acquaintance. Actually, my (signed) copy...
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Posthumous Keats
Posthumous Keats by Stanley Plumly Publisher: W.W. Norton Year: 2008/2009 Pages: 400 Here is the answer to what is perhaps a burning question: what happens when poets write biographies? Stanley Plumly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Book of Psalms
The Book of Psalms: A Translation With Commentary trans. Robert Alter Publisher: W.W. Norton Year: 2007/2009 Pages: 560 Any time one deals with a book which has been translated, you’re opening up a...
View Articlemy father moved through dooms of love
Eric Gunnink, 12/18/1956-5/29/2008. my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give, singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height this...
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