Debts & Lessons
Loving engenders intimacy. The resulting proximity creates space for further loving. Lynn Xu’s song is born out of this space of intimacy.
Large White House Speaking
Driven more by a simmering undercurrent of topic than form or principle of organization, these poems are frankly endearing in their fidelity to the lyric as an able expression of complex truths.
Palimpsest (Poem)
Flower-bordered river where I fillet the hyacinths, a russian doll of places posing as one place. Halogen me at a horse show in Florida while another juliennes olives for appetizers. A doll slipped in another till all dolls are dull: versions of me with whistles for lips reciting asterisks in the periodic table. Collage of […]
The Ecopoetry Anthology
The Ecopoetry Anthology is a beautifully constructed, carefully planned, and intelligently framed volume. Readers looking for a concise introduction to the field of ecopoetry, or a thought-provoking intervention into contemporary scholarly approaches to ecopoetics, will find this book a worthy addition to their library.
Lost And
Like all good poetry, Lost And keeps us somewhat lost, and therefore looking.
Killing
How the blade was not sharp enough.
How a duck’s neck is supple as a thick piece of rope.
Famous Tombs
Bees crowd the statuary, topiary.
White trees where the orchard used to be.
Low hills spotted with honey, the barn
Accuracy
The invention of consciousness
was as brutal as it was the birth of the past
tense. The past itself not a place, but the echo
On the Worst Day of the Fever
It occurred to me that I had swallowed
some shards of mirror without realizing it.
There was an ice fog that descended
and left me shaking. I began to realize that
I’d never actually held an entire conversation.
Two Reviews: New Works from SplitLevel Texts
Carla Harryman…and Catherine Meng…each offer an expansive poetics, suggesting that the inherited conventions of poetry afford new possibilities when presented with the documentary tasks inherent in many non-literary types of prose writing.