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Dear Readers,
This week, we present as our prose selection "An Interview with Michael McGriff," by Ben Evans, from Fogged Clarity, Summer 2018:
"I had all these things cooking anyway, but the book sparked into life when I was at the Portland Art Museum and I saw the painting “Early Hour”, by Karl Hofer who was a German Expressionist painter who I really had no knowledge about, but this painting kind of caught me dead in my tracks. The more I looked at it the more I was totally overwhelmed by it, and mostly because it seems, on first glimpse, to be a pretty ordinary European painting. You know, it’s a naked guy and a naked woman in bed and in repose; they’ve got a dog at their feet. There’s a landscape in the background. But there’s just something spooky about it, and the guy starts to look really deathly the more you look at him. You know, then you look on the placard: it was painted in 1935, the guy’s a German, and then all of history sort of triangulates the foreboding tones."
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: Robin Robertson's The Long Take reviewed by John McAuliffe. (The Irish Times) Poet Amy Catanzano "hopes that poetry can help physicists develop a more effective and accurate language..." (Physics) Selections from Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling, edited by Adam Kirsch. (Paris Review Daily David Behrens on Philip Larkin: Letters Home 1936-1977, edited by James Booth. (Yorkshire Post) Rita Dove introduces a poem by Iain Haley Pollock. (The New York Times Magazine) Christian Wiman's He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art reviewed by Casey N. Cep. (The New York Times) Don Paterson's The Fall at Home: New and Collected Aphorisms reviewed by Alex Preston. (The Spectator) Madeline Miller considers the dark heart of Odysseus. (The Times Literary Supplement) "All of us have been thinking about this kind of thing for years," says Anthony Madrid. (Paris Review Daily) And more...4. New Arrivals
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Stars Shall Bend Their Voices: Poets' Favorite Hymns & Spiritual Songs, Jeffrey L. Johnson, ed. (Orison Books) Stet, Dora Malech (Princeton University Press) Running Upon the Wires, Kate Tempest (Bloomsbury Publishing)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Kevin McFadden
Tuesday - Austin Smith
Wednesday - Christina Olson
Thursday - Stephen Sexton
Friday - Chase Twichell
Saturday -David Ferry
Sunday -Todd Davis
6. Featured Poets October 8 - October 14, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Forrest Gander
Tuesday - Mary Ruefle
Wednesday - George Elliott Clarke
Thursday - Maged Zaher
Friday - Max Ritvo
Saturday -Nadya Radulova, tr. Maria Vassileva
Sunday -J. Michael Martinez
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Fadwa Soleiman / tr. Marilyn Hacker, "For Lana Sadiq"
J. Allyn Rosser, "Design"
Lisa Olstein, "Possibility of Repair"
Anne Michaels, "Five Islands"
Albert Goldbarth, "Deep Down"
Philip Schaefer, "Touching Down"
Nicole Cooley, "Mad Money"
8. Poem From Last Year
Possibility of Repair
Now we grieve waving fuzzy
avatars in the clotted air, virtual
mourners lining up to testify to
a glimpse of a wisp of your hair.
A bunch of phonies, you might say,
where were you when the fox got
stumbling drunk on mulberry wine,
when the cat caught and released
that woodpecker onto the crooked
ladder of my spine? Ham and
cheese on a hillock where before us
Mohawks and mountain lions
and countless freshmen and maybe
a few freedmen once sled. Some
soggy children, a lost Spiritualist
or two, late to the orgy, their donkey
having taken a wrong turn early on,
but you know what they say about
all paths winding up the same hill.
Overcomplicated, the hooks and latches
on this brassiere, by which I mean
embrace. Beloved nobodies, deranged
neighbors, doppelgängers every one,
who among us is willing to look
with proper awe at the gossamer fawn
newly pushed from its flesh palace
into the wrong season's brisk air?
Snowflake, turn out that blue light.
Somehow we've ended up in the yard
again counting turkeys by hindsight.
Saintly, they'll be martyred beneath
the paling sun. Come on, we whisper
to the near disappeared. Come on,
come out, come up. Okay then, we say,
go on, some boats are made for one.
Lisa Olstein
Late Empire
Copper Canyon Press
Copyright © 2017 by Lisa Olstein
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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