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JOHN BEER’S RESPONSE TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”
Small Stakes? Which Ivy-educated post-avantish blogosphere luminary is so taken with his newest collection, he’s given to handing signed copies out to the homeless in his California city? Which one-time “major prizewinner” has been putting more money and effort into rehauling her decolletage than her poetic line? Which inveterate prankster and magus of the Midwest […]
The Shape of Things by George Moore
Look at this painting squared by light of a certain afternoon hour, hung on the wall out of reach of the dead, who were to blame. See the red roofs and the boxes, spared by his new infinity? Cezanne lost his sight to oceans, repetition, the impossible wave. The ocean was an idea mounting the […]
Two poems from Mes forêts (My Forests) by Hélène Dorion
translated from the French by Susanna Lang
we hear the song
of fracture and desire
body like the tide going out
pale boat
lost in its night