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Dear Readers,
Our prose series resumes this week with David Biespiel's "Legible Horizon," reviewing Christian Wiman's Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems, from the July / August issue of American Poetry Review:
"Unlike Heaney, whose poetry he reveres, Wiman is not a jittery seer. There's woe and bliss, partner, bliss and woe. But as makes sense for a poet who makes no objections about both the necessity of tradition and disrupting it, Wiman beguiles with precision. The edges of perception are smooth, taperedÂat once transparent and dense and twinkling like an oil paintingÂas a way of advancing his own version of human consciousness. In fact, his concentration rarely fails, and his talent as a poet of spiritual argument is unsurpassed among living American poets."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Irina Ratushinskaya, 63 - an obituary for the Soviet poet and dissident. (The Guardian) Porter Fox remembers the poet Larry Fagin. (The New Yorker) "Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own." Andrew Ridker on "how CAConrad turns ritual into poetry." (Paris Review Daily) Namara Smith reviews Priestdaddy: A Memoir, by Patricia Lockwood. (London Review of Books) Eric Ormsby reviews The Bughouse: The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound, by Daniel Swift. (The Times Literary Supplement) Cornelia Street Café Celebrates 40 Years (The New York Times) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
No TV for Woodpeckers, Gary Barwin (Buckrider Books) Dear Ghost,, Catherine Owen (Buckrider Books) Ephemerist, Lisa Bickmore (Red Mountain Press) New Boots and Pantisocracies, W. N. Herbert & Andy Jackson. ed.s (Smokestack Books) Little Blue Hut, Nancy Charley (Smokestack Books) Planet of the Best Love Songs, Ron Houchin (Salmon Poetry) After Love, Dani Gill (Salmon Poetry) Even Years, Christine Gosnay (Kent State University Press) Suture, Simone Muench and Dean Rader (Black Lawrence Press) Human-Ghost Hybrid Project, Carol Guess and Daniela Olszewska (Black Lawrence Press) ORAKL, Daniele Pantano (Black Lawrence Press) Matria, Alexandra Lytton Regalado (Black Lawrence Press) Saint Torch, Emily Fragos (Sheep Meadow Press) ¡Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, Melissa Castillo-Garsow, ed. (Arte Público Press) Days and Works, Rachel Blau Duplessis (Ahsahta Press) Oxygen, Julia Fiedorczuk, tr. Bill Johnston (Zephyr Press) My Favorite Houseguest, Mike James (FutureCycle Press) Is That What That Is, Paul Hostovsky (FutureCycle Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Dave Smith
Tuesday - Sherod Santos
Wednesday - Terrance Hayes
Thursday - Jerzy Ficowski / tr. Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer
Friday - Clint McCown
Saturday - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Sunday - Laura McCullough
6. Featured Poets July 3, 2017 - July 9, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Gerard Smyth
Tuesday - Shane McCrae
Wednesday - Mark Cox
Thursday - Mark Irwin
Friday - Jeffrey Harrison
Saturday - K. A. Hays
Sunday - Catherine Stearns
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Floyd Skloot, "Late"
Tom French, Two Poems
Robin Becker, "The Fix"
Derick Mattern, "If These Should Hold Their Peace"
Cynthia Huntington, "When I Had Died"
Rosalie Moffett, "The Way It Works"
Gary Soto, From "Meatballs for the People: Proverbs to Chew On"
8. Poem From Last Year
Late
The last time my father returned from work
there was just enough daylight left for me
to watch his shadow follow on the street.
I was coming home from the beach to meet
him as usual and I can still see
the way he stopped for breath under an arc
of maple limbs, the way he looked around
without noticing I was there behind
him on the rise. Sand rode a sea breeze thick
with the familiar scent of brine and fish.
Soon he would move again. He would climb
the stairs, laughing gulls would still be the sound
of summer sun, I would still be fourteen
and have no reason to recall that scene.
Floyd Skloot
Plume
Issue 60 - 2016
Copyright © 2016 by Floyd Skloot
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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