Yang is a good friend of ours and he spent a couple of months at our home in Marfa, while we were elsewhere for work. "Second Morning in West Texas" is one of a few poems in "Pee Poems" which reference the train that runs through the middle of town. The whistle's interruption of sleep is an experience well known to us, and to translate our friend's portrayal of it was particularly poignant.
Joshua Edwards on "Second Morning in West Texas" |
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Luther Hughes: A Seattle Artist to Watch
"A Shiver in the Leaves is not your typical curl-up-on-the-couch nature poetry book about the leaves changing color, but rather an attempt at finding a place away from violent anti-Blackness even as it continues to show up in the city and natural environment (“crows sorrowed the sky,” Luther notes at one point)."
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Susan Tichy on Czesław Miłosz's The Collected Poems
"His quarrels and debates with California—and with everything else, from the Catholic Church to the slippery and duplicitous powers of language itself—I met in the poems, and as poems. His dialectical movement through image and statement, history and lyric, was a revelation, a poetic practice that, in itself, opposed authoritarian thinking—literally a form of resistance." |
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