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Alchemical, the Body Becomes a Mound of Jewels, an Ancient Hunger: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Kaveh Akbar’s Portrait of the Alcoholic
Portrait of the AlcoholicKaveh AkbarSibling Rivalry Press, 2017 In his essay, “Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking,” Lewis Hyde notes: “as a person becomes alcoholic he turns more and more into…
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Auden’s “Parlor Game for a Wet Afternoon” [by David Lehman]
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. “A parlor game for a wet afternoon — imagining the mirrors of one's friends.…
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“The expression on her face is business-like, as though she were signing a check.” Revisiting a classic: My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley
J.R.Ackerley and Tulip Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine. Urine is another and highly complex source of social information; it is a language, a code,…
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Next Line, Please: This Week’s Challenge [by David Lehman]
<<< Word golf has always been a reliable way to produce inspiration. This alternative to rhyme—in which the end-words spell out a progression from, say, “kiss” to “love,” moving one letter at a time—combines…
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Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration: Juan Felipe Herrera
francisco mariposa, by maya gonzalez Walking (Tenochtitlan, DF) with Francisco X. Alarcón, 1978 by Juan Felipe Herrera Coyolxauki Escavations downtown Mexico DF here archeologists bend down below us hard hats women and…
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from “Love’s Banquet” [by David Lehman]
<<< I sip from the cup that Keats says is full of the warm south, mirth, and sun, “With beaded bubbles winking at the brim / And purple-stained mouth,” and I recommend Byron’s remedy…
