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Dear Readers,
Our prose series continues this week with "Oh No," by Marianne Boruch, from the July/August issue of American Poetry Review:
"Because past the angel at the gate, oh can turn like that, go under, straight into poetry.
"Here's the god's honest: a moment of calm recently came to me, so close to sleep it was sleep. In my dream I saw a girl whose dark t-shirt read: All is Failure. Except "failure" was misspelledÂpart of the dream tooÂeither 'far-lure' or 'fear-lure.' The words still blur. But thank you, whatever sent that.
"Because now I accept far or fear as the real F words, both part of lure andÂmost of allÂthat F as failure, as in all is failure, a triumph. I hands-down love that, everything made of failure, triggered first by failure, seen in its light, builtÂat least poetry often isÂby one first failed turn of phrase after another, stanza and more stanzas in a standing pool of white space until a serious full draft lies there flat. Failure as blank check and ice floe into inner space. Is this what it is to see clearly?"
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: Blank Verse Films presents a reading by David Mason. (Blank Verse Films) Robin Young revisits a 2006 interview with the late Donald Hall. (Here & Now) Aimless Love, by Billy Collins, reviewed by Ben Wilkinson. (The Guardian) New collections by John OÂDonnell, John F. Deane, and Eva Bourke reviewed by CaitrÃona OÂReilly. (The Irish Times) The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, edited by Gerald Dawe, reviewed by Sean Hewitt. (The Irish Times) Deirdre Falvey on Seamus Heaney:100 Poems, chosen and introduced by the Heaney family, and the new Dublin exhibition, Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again. (The Irish Times) Nicholas Wroe on Seamus Heaney:100 Poems and the Dublin exhibition, Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again. (The Guardian) "Remembering Donald Hall, a Poet of Love and Loss" - An appreciation by Walt Hunter. (The Atlantic) Rita Dove introduces a poem by Terrance Hayes. (The New York Times Magazine) And more...4. New Arrivals
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Sunday Out Of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems, Brian Swann (Sheep Meadow Press) Detroit & Selected Poems, Philip Hammial (Sheep Meadow Press) Stranger on Earth, Richard Jones (Copper Canyon Press) Earthquake Daily, Jacqueline Lyons (New Michigan Press) You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave, Maya Catherine Popa (New Michigan Press) Deadlifts, Patricia Clark (New Michigan Press) Will You Be My Friend?: New & Selected Poems for the Young at Heart (Revised Edition), Gabriel Fitzmaurice (Salmon Poetry) How It Is: Selected Poems, Neil Shepard (Salmon Poetry) The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With, Daniel Lawless (Salmon Poetry) Of Marriage, Nicole Cooley (Alice James Books) Adelaide Crapsey: On the Life and Work of an American Master, Adelaide Crapsey, Jenny Molberg and Christian Bancroft, ed.s (Pleiades Press and Gulf Coast) If You Have to Go, Katie Ford (Graywolf Press) I Would Lie to You if I Could: Interviews with Ten American Poets, Chard deNiord (University of Pittsburgh Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Derek Otsuji
Tuesday - Dore Kiesselbach
Wednesday - Duy Doan
Thursday - Lynn Melnick
Friday - Dave Lucas
Saturday - Doug Ramspeck
Sunday - Albert Goldbarth
6. Featured Poets June 25, 2018 - July 1, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Jennifer Atkinson
Tuesday - Kristin Robertson
Wednesday - Kara van de Graaf
Thursday - Wyn Cooper
Friday - Fady Joudah
Saturday - Garrett Hongo
Sunday - Kazim Ali
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
E. J. Koh, "To My Mother Kneeling in a Cactus Garden"
Gerard Smyth, "The Horse Came Back But Not the Rider"
Shane McCrae, "Jefferson Davis the Adoptive Father of the Mulatto Jim Limber Dreams the Freedom of the
Negro Will One Day Be His Freedom"
Mark Cox, "Alcohol"
Mark Irwin, "Table of Contents"
Jeffrey Harrison, "Glazing a Window"
K. A. Hays, "On the Day the World Is Forecast to End and Does Not"
8. Poem From Last Year
Glazing a Window
As usual, when I begin
I feel as if I don't
know what I'm doing
and have to learn it all
over again, and sure enough
on my very first pane
the size and shape of a page,
the blade of the putty knife
pulls the ribbon of soft
glazing compound right
off the strip of trim I'm
trying to press it into.
I start again, and then
again, and eventually
get into a rhythm, making
small adjustments as I go
and taking pleasure in
the way the knife blade
compresses the putty
into a smooth bevel
while its sharp edge cuts
a clean line against the glass,
the excess curling away;
and I move from pane
to pane, still making
mistakes, of course, but
emending them as best
I can while trying not
to lose my focus, trying
to get into a groove
and stay there. And when
I'm done, I wipe away
my smudged fingerprints
so my labor doesn't show
and the window glistens
with the day's reflection.
Jeffrey Harrison
upstreet
Number 13 - 2017
Copyright © 2017 by Jeffrey Harrison
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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