Thoughts for Dispossessed Poets “There is another world, and it is in this one” -Paul Éluard “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” -John 1:10 Boo hoo. The modern world we live in does not appreciate poetry. Not like it ought to, not like […]
In his most recent collection, Next to Nothing, Chris Agee fuses voracious verbal intelligence with well-tuned musicality. But this is not why I am compelled to re-read this book. Written in the years following the death of his four-year-old daughter, Agee’s elegies ring with veracity, transcending reportage of paternal grief even as it details, in
I recently had the great pleasure of interviewing Andrew Philip, author of The Ambulance Box, as part of his virtual book tour. We conducted the interview via Skype, and it was remarkable to be able to both hear and see Andrew from such a great distance. Unfortunately, a few of those digital packets did seem
“Even the pick / of those we share our pulse with shares this jolt / beneath the ribs, this double click of love. / How could they cope with even just one heart?” -Andrew Philip, “Cardiac” I have Jilly Dybka to thank for sending Andrew Philip my way. Since I have written openly about the
