tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98578182024-03-14T07:31:58.763+00:00Carrie EtterPoet, teacher & criticCarrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.comBlogger1070125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-31092880479799577932016-07-19T21:50:00.001+01:002016-07-19T21:50:16.987+01:00New site!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-40325579254627643852016-06-12T10:30:00.000+01:002016-06-12T10:30:03.349+01:00Swallows and Waves by Paula Bohince (Sarabande, 2016)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Some favourite passages from this book of lyric poems on "scroll paintings and woodblock prints from Japan's Edo period, which spanned 1603-1868": </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She from the spent cushion</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">to keep him but to indicate pleasure-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "Lover Taking Leave of a Courtesan"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Bitter-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sweet longing becomes inflected</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "Hibiscus and Korean Nightingale"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> How cool</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the light in this region of no awe. Welcome</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">middle register: sane, calm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">end of "Sparrows and Camelia"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A boatman reclines on the roof</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and smokes. In mist, he is invisible,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">swept along, an absent-</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">minded god.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "Riverboat Party"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Adrenaline mixes with caution, ready</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to ride toward what is destined. What molten gold</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">feels before it's poured into the ring mold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">end of "Young Samurai on Horseback"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Water holds blueness not much longer. Death</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">will costume it in its color, and the honking of geese</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">will give voice to its grieving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">end of "Descending Geese at Katana"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As imitation bends toward knowledge, so pleasure</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">becomes a version of love. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "Courtesan with Her Attendant"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A cricket on the pampas grass</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">outside wants in. Plotting its escape</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from what looks like freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">end of "Crickets, Cafe, and Flowers"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Sensuous</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">admissions, the wilderness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of another breached, known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "Lovers in the Snow"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Delighted</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">against a camouflage of like-minded flowers, the yellows</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and green work to keep him hidden,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">safe in imagination, before the world gallops in, offering</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">promises of glory, real swords and real horses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">end of "Boy Dancing with a Hobby-Horse"</span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-82009817942363578262016-06-06T08:30:00.000+01:002016-06-06T08:30:02.840+01:00Jelly Roll by Kevin Young (Knopf, 2003)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Some favourite passages:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If only I'd read</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the moss on the tree!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">instead of shaking</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">it for fruit--</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">from "Cakewalk"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You burn me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">at both ends, send</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the geese bumping</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">within my skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">end of "Jitterbug"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Your bordeaux dress</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">uncorked, let's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">breathe awhile</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">from "Boogaloo"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">...your noisy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">nudity--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">O the brass of your body!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">sliding, trombone-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">style....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">from "Break"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">O the far-flung</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">morning, a moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">still among it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">from "Calypso"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Lady, you are my Mobile,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Alabama--lowdown & too hot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">for human habitat--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">opening of "Ramble"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Drive until sun stares</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">me down. Radio & the cicadas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">with their static wings--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I am singing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">to myself again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">opening of "Saxophone Solo"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Tonight even the storm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">cannot calm me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">from "Slide Guitar"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Outside azaleas bloom loud</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">& red like ambulances</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">or at least try.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Lights out--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">which you save</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">to bring light, I</span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-58778421520232295602016-05-28T09:00:00.000+01:002016-05-28T16:32:54.187+01:00Allison Benis White's Small Porcelain Head (Four Way Books, 2013)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some favourite passages from this powerful, enigmatic book in prose poetry:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please forgive me. I pray and can't make it stop. There were lambswool wigs and paperweight eyes, two factory fires. Instead of blankness, I learned to draw stars with two triangles, one upside and overlapping the other. I covered pages, then like bracelets, my wrists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What should I do with my mind? Think of the way it broke until the breaking is language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unlike the other automatons who lift a hand mirror or balloon, she exists even when we close our eyes, slapping one small brass cymbal into another, frantically, to prove touching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I have a headache, I lift my hand over my eyes--if death is a failure of imagination, we are alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As with every revelation, midair, oblivion is realigned and clarified: I want to die then decide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Within the bonnet, the two-faced head is rotated by pulling a string from the torso: one face calm, one crying plastic beads on her cheeks--turning: peaceful, sad, peaceful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nothing in-between, no transition--I don't remember why she is suffering, why she is glad. It happens so fast: I am hopeless as I pull the string in her torso, then sick with wonder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a while, we moan and lift our arms in order to feel what she feels: her pose is agony.</span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-70376997214957206352016-05-25T08:30:00.000+01:002016-05-25T08:30:00.246+01:00Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red (Vintage, 1999), fourth and final selection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Here is my last selection of favourite passages from this outstanding book:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">...fifty red parrots dove and roared</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Pacific at night is red</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXXVII. Eyewitnesses"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enormous pools of a moment kept opening around his hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XL. Photographs: Origin of Time"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...a light so brilliant it feels cold and hot at once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XLI. Photographs: Jeats"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the photograph the face of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Herakles is white. It is the face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of an old man. It is a photograph of the future, thought Geryon months later when he</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">looking down at the acid bath and watching likeness come groping out of the bones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XLV. Photographs: Like and Not Like"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XLVI. Photographs: #1748"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are amazing beings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Geryon is thinking. We are neighbors of fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now time is rushing towards them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">where they stand side by side with arms touching, immortality on their faces,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XLVII. The Flashes in Which a Man</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the UK, you can<a href="http://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Anne-Carson/Autobiography-of-Red--A-Novel-in-Verse/576612" target="_blank"> buy <i>Autobiography of Red </i>from Hive here</a>. </span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-90293350933845963642016-05-23T08:30:00.000+01:002016-05-23T08:30:24.068+01:00The Great Graduating Poets' Showcase at Bath Brew House, May 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-39244975033148120642016-05-22T08:30:00.000+01:002016-05-22T08:30:09.020+01:00Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red (Vintage, 1999), third selection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The pimiento stung his mouth alive like sudden sunset.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: medium;">You eat like my daughter. With a certain</span></i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">shall I say lucidity.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Black outside air tossed itself</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hard against the windows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">Oh don't go, thought Geryon who felt himself starting</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to slide off the surface of the room</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">like an olive off a plate. When the plate attained an angle of thirty degrees</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">he would vanish into his own blankness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXX. Distances"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cars nested along the curb on their shadows. Buildings leaned back out of the street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Little rackety wind went by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Moon gone. Sky shut. Night had delved deep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He could see the harbor blackly glittering. Cobblestones grew slick. Smell of salt fish</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and latrines furred the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hardly glancing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">at one another the three of them played</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as one person, in a state of pure discovery. They tore clear and clicked and locked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and unlocked, they shot</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">their eyebrows up and down. They leaned together and wove apart, they rose </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and cut away and stalked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">one another and flew up in a cloud and sank back down on waves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Black night sky weighed starlessly on the windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The petals of their colognes rose around them in a light terror. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXXI. Tango"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...the elevator crashed like a mastodon within its hollow cage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXXII. Kiss"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ancash sat very straight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a man as beautiful as a live feather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Soon they were out on the street</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">walking fast along Avenida </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 36px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Bolívar</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> with a hard wind strumming their bodies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A winter sun had thrown its bleak wares on the sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and people going past</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">looked dazzled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXXIV. Harrods"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />In the UK, you can <a href="http://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Anne-Carson/Autobiography-of-Red--A-Novel-in-Verse/576612" target="_blank">buy <i>Autobiography of Red </i>from Hive, supporting local independent shops, here</a>. </span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-58241682421441847172016-05-20T08:30:00.000+01:002016-05-20T08:30:00.193+01:00Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red (Vintage, 1999), second selection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Up on the overpass</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the night was wide open</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and blowing headlights like a sea. He stood against the wind and let it peel him</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">clean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XVII. Walls"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...a night suddenly gone solid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XVIII. She"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">...Geryon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XX. AA"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each morning a shock</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to return to the cut soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Outside the natural world was enjoying</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a moment of total strength. Wind rushed over the ground like a sea and battered up</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">into the corners of the buildings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">garbage cans went dashing down the alley after their souls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXIII. Water"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Geryon's life entered a numb time, caught between the tongue and the taste.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...Geryon's</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">whole body formed one arch of a cry--upcast to that custom, the human custom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of wrong love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXIV. Freedom"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the aeroplane moved over the frozen white flatland of the clouds Geryon left</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">his life behind like a weak season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Geryon closed his eyes and listened to engines vibrating deep in the moon-splashed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">canals of his brain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Outside a bitten moon rode fast over a tableland of snow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXVI. Aeroplane"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A cold spray</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of fear shot across his lungs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Four of the roses were on fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and howling colossal intimacies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from the back of their fused throats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He moved off into the tragicomedy of the crowd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXVI. Mitwelt"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pulling his body after him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like a soggy mattress Geryon trudged on uphill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXVIII. Skepticism"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunset begins early in winter, a bluntness at the edge of the light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Geryon paused in his listening and saw the slopes of time spin backwards and stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was the hour when the snow goes blue</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and streetlights come on and a hare may</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">pause on the tree line as still as a word in a book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His eye traveled to the clock at the front of the room and he fell into the pool</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of his favorite question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "XXIX. Slopes"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the UK, you can <a href="http://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Anne-Carson/Autobiography-of-Red--A-Novel-in-Verse/576612" target="_blank">buy <i>Autobiography of Red </i>from Hive, supporting local independent shops, here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the best parts of visiting San Francisco is visiting Fisherman's Wharf. Yes, it's too touristy, but 1) the sea lions and 2) clam chowder in Boudin sourdough bread bowls. </span><br />
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-62461640935054596712016-05-16T08:30:00.000+01:002016-05-16T08:30:05.942+01:00Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson (Vintage, 1999), first selection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">A first selection of favourite passages from this wonderful book:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He clothed himself in this strong word <i>each. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before this time Geryon had not lived nights just days and their red intervals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">* </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Facts are bigger in the dark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">from "II. Each"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...said his mother</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was standing before him now</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They grinned at each other as night climbed ashore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then he met Herakles and all the kingdoms of his life shifted down a few notches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A pure bold longing to be gone filled him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...and a fragment of human voice tore itself out and came past, it seemed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the UK, you can <a href="http://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Anne-Carson/Autobiography-of-Red--A-Novel-in-Verse/576612" target="_blank">buy <i>Autobiography of Red </i>from Hive here</a>.</span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-79001482337695098032016-05-14T08:30:00.000+01:002016-05-14T08:30:13.667+01:00Yosemite, April 2016, second of two selections<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">After three very misty and rainy days, on the day we left it cleared considerably, and we saw the famous valley view. Glorious.</span><br />
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-40127521347091901752016-04-28T16:19:00.005+01:002016-04-28T16:19:55.565+01:00rob mclennan's 12 or 20 questions interview<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Rob mclennan interviewed me for his blog; the result<a href="http://www.robmclennan.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/12-or-20-second-series-questions-with_72.html" target="_blank"> can be read here</a>. I'd be interested in any responses....</span></div>
Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-71285641873473172792016-04-16T17:22:00.000+01:002016-04-16T17:22:01.032+01:00Nerve Damage, a different kind of ekphrastic anthology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rupert Loydell sent this image to numerous poets asking for their responses in poetry, and the booklet <i>Nerve Damage </i>collects the results, with contributions from Annabel Banks, Sarah Cave, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'ITC Officina Sans';"><span style="font-size: large;">M.A. Duxbury-Hibbert, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'ITC Officina Sans';"><span style="font-size: large;">A.C. Evans,</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Mike Ferguson, Peter Finch, John Gimlet, David H.W. Grubb, Alan Halsey, Daniel Y. Harris, H.L. Hix, Aaron Kent, John Mingay, Sheila E. Murphy, John Phillips, Ian Seed, Robert Sheppard, Martin Stannard, <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'ITC Officina Sans';">Paul Sutton, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'ITC Officina Sans';">George Ttoouli, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'ITC Officina Sans';">Loydell, and myself. It can be purchased by sending £5 cheque made to R.M. Loydell or a $10 bill for US orders to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'ITC Officina Sans';">Stride, 4B Tremayne Close, Devoran, Cornwall TR3 6QE. I'm greatly looking forward to reading the other poems, to see the range of responses to the image. </span></span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-3407426861291899162016-04-07T17:31:00.000+01:002016-04-07T17:31:03.402+01:00(Re)visiting UCLA, my alma mater, 3 April 2016, second of two<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the Sculpture Garden. The building behind it is Bunche Hall, where I took many of my Latin classes.</span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-58548783142946193262016-03-30T21:09:00.001+01:002016-03-30T21:09:57.007+01:00The Frank Gehry / Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photographer is hunting Europe's spring, along boulevard and pig sty, he wants to catch the light that deprives things of their value--meaning their place in a hierarchy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can buy this illuminating book of prose poems <a href="http://www.shearsman.com/ws-shop/category/834-bramness-hanne/product/4097-hanne-bramness-no-film-in-the-camera" target="_blank">directly from the publisher here</a>. </span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-78803274217322251582016-02-28T09:42:00.005+00:002016-02-28T09:42:43.717+00:00Connie Voisine's Calle Florista (University of Chicago, 2015)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Connie and I are both graduates of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of California, Irvine, and I was glad to have her read to my students Thursday while she's spending her sabbatical in the UK. Here are some favourite passages from her new collection, <i>Calle Florista</i>:</span><br />
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There weren't flowers so much as</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">while the bushes roiled with kittens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe the soul isn't a fussy eater--</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">still, it is ravenous</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and expensive, like a defensive lineman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book's perfume lifted as you touched it: must, dead clover, wood smoke. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your flesh became silk, limpid, luminous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The pond wants to be the sun that dumps its sugar on the grass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The shoe wants to be the buckle that the girl shines with a cloth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The buckle wants to be the magpie lifting what shines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And of course night comes on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">just as you desired. As do the wild pigs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">snuffling in the desert, as do the wolves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">spangled with hunger, and the hunger itself </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that lopes through my house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your desire is dark,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">whoever you are, and igneously</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cooling, it litters my slopes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There aren't enough doves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Onions are fallible, only</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">pretending to be infinite....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the opening of "A World's Too Little for Thy Tent,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Grave Too Big for Me"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This country wakes to turn off the light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and it's no other dark but yours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">end of "Prayer of the St. of the Hottest Night</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember, no matter how hard you tried,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the UK, <a href="http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/calle-florista,connie-voisine-9780226295329" target="_blank"><i>Calle Florista </i>is available from Foyle's Books here.</a></span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-9629119724602247572016-02-20T16:24:00.000+00:002016-02-20T16:24:21.491+00:00Michelle Detorie's After-Cave (Ahsahta Press, 2014)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Some favourite passages from the book I've just read, Michelle Detorie's first collection, <i>After-Cave</i>. Note I couldn't always recreate her spacing.</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each of us was asked to speak, and it was with reluctance and kindness that I lied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am animal; there is no becoming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your heart, it's a knot</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of flames, a knave</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of feathers. In</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the dream sea, green</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You tell me that the pyramids were the product of collaboration, innovative project management, but I know already that what made them was slave labor--a capsized river of bones and blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The easiest way I found to obtain Detorie's <i>After-Cave </i>in the UK was <a href="http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=detorie&sts=t&tn=after-cave" target="_blank">through Abe Books here</a>.</span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-63714884381754779272016-02-17T16:26:00.002+00:002016-02-17T16:26:40.484+00:00Plainwater by Anne Carson (Cape, 1995)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I didn't include any selections from the first section here as they work as brilliant versions of the original Mimnermus fragments. Perhaps I should reconsider. Anyway, here are my favourite passages elsewhere in the manuscript.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">From Part II, Short Talks:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">From Part V, The Anthropology of Water:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">...the only rule of travel is, Don't come back the way you went.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It would be an almost perfect love affair, wouldn't it? that between the pilgrim and the road. No mistake, it is a beautiful thing, the <i>camino. </i>It stretches away from you. It leads to real gold. Look at the way it shines. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And it asks only one thing. Which happens to be the thing you long to give. You step forward. You shiver in the light. Nothing is left in you but the desire for perfect economy of action, using up the whole heart, no residue, no mistake:</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">camino. </i></span></div>
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Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-65427512125503783182016-01-21T17:59:00.000+00:002016-01-21T17:59:33.711+00:00RIP C.D. Wright, 1949-2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">C.D. Wright was one of my--and many other poets'--heroes. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-cd-wright-tribute-20160119-story.html?platform=hootsuite" target="_blank">Here's a brilliant overview of her work</a> by Stephen Burt.</span></div>
Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-21766307247829552562016-01-18T21:54:00.001+00:002016-01-18T21:54:54.582+00:00An appreciative review of Linda Lamus's A Crater the Size of Calcutta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">appears <a href="http://davidfoster-morgan.com/2015/12/27/they-shall-take-up-serpents-smiling/" target="_blank">here on David Foster-Morgan's blog</a>....</span><br />
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