Memoirs of an Ass, Part 2

At The Paris Review Online.

 

Teaser quote: The whole thing screams allegory. A girl named “Soul” (that’s what Psyche means) marries “Love” (Cupid) but is not allowed to look at him. Eventually she does look at him and he immediately tells her “Nice going, asshole,” and deserts her. She then goes through many trials and tribulations, and is eventually reunited with Cupid—who never really stopped loving her. They have a kid named Pleasure or Delight or whatever. The end. I am leaving out a ton of stuff

[originally posted Wednesday 14 March 2018]

Review, by Geoffrey Hilsabeck, of Try Never, for Berfrois

At Berfrois.

 

Teaser quote: Form is not much in favor these days. The most recent issue of Poetry—not that we should let that magazine set the standard just because it has the temerity to call itself Poetry and pays its writers by the line—doesn’t have a single poem written in form.

[originally posted Wednesday 14 March 2018]

Memoirs of an Ass

At The Paris Review Online.

 

Teaser quote: Then the main one reaches into the wound up to her elbow, and draws out Socrates’s heart, and they plug the hole with the sponge, saying a spell to the effect of “O sponge, born in the sea, beware of crossing a river.” Then they squat over the other guy, who’s half-dead with fright, and piss on him, thoroughly drenching him. Then they leave. The door springs back into place. The hinges reassemble.

[originally posted Wednesday 28 February 2018]

Interview with poet Megan Levad

At The Paris Review Online.

 

Teaser quote: “And yet, the affair did not sound like much fun. The first time she and her lover had sex it was on a blanket under a tree during a drive in the country—what a trope—and I remember that she wrote it was "as pleasurable as the rooster’s entry must be for the hen," or something like that. When I read this I had no personal knowledge of such things. But the idea that she felt compelled to do something hurtful, destructive, confusing, and that it wasn’t even pleasurable for her, is still interesting to me.”

 

[originally posted Wednesday 17 January 2018]

Lana Turner #10 now available. I’m in it.

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In Lana Turner Journal: 

 

Teaser quote, from the Table of Contents: 

 

                  §7. Wild in the Semantic Field: poems

Jorie Graham (page 236) Catherine Wagner (292) Polina Barskova (240) Shane Book (295) Joyelle McSweeney (242) Anthony Madrid (301) Kevin Holden (248) Molly Bendall (306) Nathaniel Rosenthalis (254) Douglas Puccinnini (308) Matthew Moore (260) David Need (310) Tongo Eisen-Martin (263) Martha Ronk (311) Diana Khoi Nugyen (272) Geoffrey Gilbert (313) Rae Armantrout (282) Karolinn Fiscaletti (318) Karen Garthe (289)

[originally posted Wednesday 3 January 2018]

Dr Seuss Again

At The Paris Review Online.

 

Teaser quote: Imagine John Bunyan rewriting Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, nine years later, in collaboration with John Milton.

[originally posted Wednesday 20 December 2017]

The Fuzz. With pictures by Coco Picard.

At The Paris Review Online.

 

Teaser quote: 

Long time ago there was . . . . . .

a fuzz.

We say “Why?”

Nobody knuzz.

No, it’s a lie!

The fuzz does.

“Fuzz, why?”

Fuzz says: Hi.

I’m the fuzz.

There is no because.

Fuzz just is.

Is and was.

On the floor, 

and in the drawer . . . 

in your hair, 

. . . and on the air . . . 

I’m the FUZZ.

There is no because.

[originally posted Wednesday 3 January 2018]