I take great pleasure in pursuing spectacular poems. And given how much poetry is being published at this point, this is not not an easy task. So much good work is being published! So aside from looking for work by the poets I admire, I look for editors with great taste. Or magazines and presses who consistently rely on editors with great taste.
These are some of the poems I’ve found that are spectacular! Or I think they are, at least.
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“The Book of Eve,” by Nora Hikari
I had just come across this poem, “origin story,” by Ginny Threefoot this morning. Which in itself is a spectacular poem. And I’m going to try and make space for posting about it. But it reminded me of this poem I read by Nora Hikari back in the fall. “The Book of Eve” (from The…
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“Down by the Sea,” by Max Winter
I know Alice Notley isn’t the only person to write about the relationship between “line” and “sentence,” but I have always appreciated the illustrations she uses in her essay, “American Poetic Music at the Present Moment.” (found in Coming After (University of Michigan Press, 2005)) For a long time, I don’t think I was a…
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from Time Is an Indecipherable Text, by Lauri Garcia Dueñas
I appreciate the immediacy of Dueñas characterization of a city–its chaos, a many-armed chaos, or a many-ways-visited-upon-the-poet chaos. And it’s for multiple reasons this chaos exists. Like, um, a city is just chaotic by nature. Consider construction of anything, the serpentine relationship between rebar and concrete. The serpent-like relationship when a person is wandering the…