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Dear Readers,
We continue our prose series this week with "Charms, Prayers, and Curses", a review by Beverley Bie Brahic of Reginald Gibbons's How Poems Think, from the November issue of Poetry:
"Do poems think?
Big question, one that has nagged people at least since Plato was grumbling about the dangerously loose thinking of poets in contrast to the rigor of philosophers. 'There's an old quarrel between philosophy and poetry,' he said in the Republic—but what exactly that quarrel was is moot—not least because Plato's use of dramatic dialogue to make his case was itself poetical."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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Pleiades Press Book Contests: Now Reading Poetry & Prose
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3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Gerry Moriarty reviews Madge, a biography of Madge Herron, by Patricia Herron. (The Irish Times) Leonard Cohen, 82, an obituary. (The New York Times) Megan Garber interviews Don Share about the role poems have been playing for people across the political spectrum after the 2016 election in the U.S. (The Atlantic) David Biespiel reflects on James Tate's "The Lost Pilot" in Part 5 of his series. (The Rumpus) Elizabeth Lund selects her "best poetry of the month." (The Washington Post) Housman Country: Into the Heart of England, by Peter Parker, reviewed by Paul Keegan. (London Review of Books) Andrew McCulloch introduces Samuel Menashe's "Nightfall, Morning." (The Times Literary Supplement) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
A Horse with Holes in It, Greg Alan Brownderville (Louisiana State University Press) The Rings of the Universe: Selected Poems, Ubaldo de Robertis, tr. Adria Bernardi (Chelsea Editions) An Autobiography: Poems, Panagiotis A. Tsonis (Dos Madres) When the Wanderers Come Home, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (University of Nebraska Press) Logotherapy, Mukoma Wa Ngugi (University of Nebraska Press) For the Future, Daniel Corrie (Iris Press) Everything in the Universe, Amy Wright (Iris Press) Unrationed Hope, Judith Duvall (Iris Press) Un Poco Loco, Richard Lyons (Iris Press) Bloodroot, Catherine Jagoe (Settlement House Books) In Full Velvet, Jenny Johnson (Sarabande Books) Where Are We in This Story?, Sarah Rosenblatt (Carnegie Mellon University Press) Inside Job, John Skoyles (Carnegie Mellon University Press) Suddenly, It's Evening: Selected Poems, John Skoyles (Carnegie Mellon University Press) Contradictions in the Design, Matthew Olzmann (Alice James Books)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Jeff Coughter
Tuesday - Sarah V. Schweig
Wednesday - Carol Ann Davis
Thursday - Sally Ball
Friday - Mona T. Lydon-Rochelle
Saturday - Barbara Hamby
Sunday - Ed Skoog
6. Featured Poets November 7 - November 13, 2016
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Harry Clifton
Tuesday - Michael Homolka
Wednesday - Emily Leithauser
Thursday - Lynne Knight
Friday - John Bargowski
Saturday - Gregory Kimbrell
Sunday - Lindsay Teague
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Robert Pack, "Confronting Clayfeld"
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, "She Ties My Bow Tie"
Medbh McGuckian, "An Early Apocalypse"
Alan Feldman, "As I Was Carrying the Child"
R. T. Smith, "Keel Bone"
Vanesha Pravin, "Innocence"
Angie Hogan, "The Way Girls Stand in Pictures"
8. Poem From Last Year
As I Was Carrying the Child
As I was carrying the child into the house
from the car in the driveway, through the frosty air
that ate through even the thickest coat,
the garage door lifted, recognizing its code, and the walls
of the basement smelled like a root cellar.
As I was carrying the child into the house,
her bare feet dangling (she had kicked off her boots),
I thought, as anyone would, how light she was,
though heavier than before; how someday she'd learn
to keep her boots on (when she's too big to be carried)
and to be more tactful—You're strong, she told me, for an old man;
and how, for her, the thought of an old man's death
is a mere fact, the way water spills from a tipped bucket
just as it should, so nothing in her affection
is due to pity, but comes from the simple pleasure
of being carried, quite high, by a being large
and kind enough to do it, like a monumental horse
breathing clouds of vapor, its legs way down, moving
like something that falls, just a little, but doesn't, because
it's charged with a strength that's muscular, and electrical,
not mechanical, but responsive, and has a voice ...
As I was carrying the child into the house
from the car in the driveway, through the frosty air
that ate through even the thickest coat, time
rose up and swept through me like a breath.
Alan Feldman
The Southern Review
Autumn 2015
Copyright © 2015 by Alan Feldman
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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