32 Poems – Fall 2010
Volume 8 Number 2
Fall 2010
Biannual
Sima Rabinowitz
I have always loved the organizing principle of this little journal: thirty-two ways to write (or read) a poem:
I have always loved the organizing principle of this little journal: thirty-two ways to write (or read) a poem:
- Adam Vines – “Toilet Flowers” – the provocative title, the family narrative.
- Eric Thorgersen – “Back Then” – couplets that sound like a cool country song.
- Mark Wagenaar – “The Other World” – “And the other world He spoke of.”
- Christopher Bakken – “Amphitheater” – A metaphysical accomplishment.
- Cori A. Winrock – “W11 3HT” – I have no idea what this means, but the poem makes sense (“a many-layered haunting”).
- Chris Anderson – “Plow” – how farming makes a good poem.
- Luke Johnson – “Lobster” – A poem of slender couplets about aging the “bulldozed body.”
- Luke Johnson – “On Demolition” – A personal story, a universal perspective (“letting the light fade, forgetting the horizon”).
- Lesley Wheeler – “Radiance” – “God told me and I did not listen.”
- Jennifer Militello – “Phobia” – Smart, painful couplets.
- Michael Flatt – “Between the Sunset and the Screen” – “The hand of the auteur is heavy with method…”
- Sioney Wade – “Late” – slender, narrow, two word couplets “and we brief / we rejoiced?”).
Okay. You get the idea. Thirty-two opportunities to remember why you love poetry. I especially loved “Chairs of the Twentieth Century” by Diana Smith and Stacy Kidd’s “Cordial Julep” (“Tell me again you know something / about dust”). The cover is an eerie, evocative skull design by Dirk Fowler—effective, haunting. 32 poems, 32 bones?
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