Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 26th, 2007
PotW: "Sloan-Kettering" by Lynn Shapiro
You watch her fingers leave your robe how they arc in the air to papers on her desk, and you realize that at various times in the past five years you have thought of her fingers, their short nails, and how she called you and said into the mouth of [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in PotW by Tim
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Syntactic Complexity
And she, her back to him, seems only what she shows as she bends over, reaching between her splayed legs to pick it up, her face a moment upside down beneath her crotch, her pink tongue flickering level with the face she watches watching her, the face void of expression, dense as stone, clinical as [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in golden nugget posts,poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
PotW: "So You Want an Opera Singer…" by Siobhan Brannigan
and not just mailmen, men from across the street, men who have been following her for four days and want her address to be their address Maybe Alan should comment on this week’s poem, because it’s one of his all-time favorites. (I think he had an opera singer [...]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
A Blurb
In Timothy Green’s appropriately titled AMERICAN FRACTAL a whole vision is created from fragments of American myths, family, religion, the body, holidays, money, food, art, lovers, science, ads, and even earthquakes. His poems are wonderfully original and American in their irony – it’s a kind-hearted irony with truth as its goal. With his subjects “…each [...]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
New at RATTLE.com
It occurs to me that I should make a post highlighting some of the new features we’ve started at www.rattle.com in the last year, since renovating the site. This might be a boring post to those who are already aware of these, but I think they’re still worth pointing out. 1) E-Reviews This started as [...]
