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Met a Lunatic on Craigslist
But even here, vertigo and ambivalence dominate, and I find myself searching the poems for the kinetic energy of a walker in the city; heel marks and muddy droplets. I want to overhear conversations on...
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Visiting the Taos Pueblo (“an ancient community continuously inhabited for 100 years”) on San Geronimo Day, I was frightened by the Sacred Clowns (Koshares). The list of rules for visitors explained...
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Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Dark Elderberry Branch is a collaboration between two living poets and one who is dead but fully present. Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa (former Soviet Union, in the Ukraine), learning English at the...
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Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
Wouldn’t you love to know who this beloved is? From the poem “Name”, possibly a love poem to Marina Tsvetaeva (echoing “Poems for Blok”):Its consonantsbrushing my mouthlike a kiss”Her name…rhyming,...
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Meridian by Kathleen Jesme
This fascinating chapbook leaps to mind on my daily walk through Smith College, when I stop to watch a kinetic sculpture by George Rickey, called “Four Lines Oblique Gyratory Rhombus.” It has four...
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Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
It happened one lunch hour, browsing on-line poetry while dropping crumbs on my laptop: I discovered Diane Seuss in “Blackbird” and immediately bought a copy of Wolf Lake, Blouse Blown Open. And oh the...
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