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Holy Heathen Rhapsody by Pattiann Rogers
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Pattiann Rogers [Rogers, Pattiann]

9. A thin scarf of clouds draws itself slowly over the face of the moon as the moon passes over the stars and disappears behind the arches of a stone ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
After the Fire by J. A. Jance
epub |eng | | Author:J. A. Jance

WATERSHED The quarrel, once enjoined, immediately escalated To atomic proportions, leaving us No alternative but to retreat To opposite ends of the house. There, in separate rooms, we contemplate Our ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
Under the Sign by Ann Lauterbach
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Ann Lauterbach [Lauterbach, Ann]

29. I get up, make coffee, and begin to reread Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen. Acuity of his rage, consciousness in relation to rage, perhaps the acuity of the fact of consciousness ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
Station Zed by Tom Sleigh
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-16 | Author:Tom Sleigh

I PROVED MYSELF TO BE INEPT at putting on my bulletproof vest, attaching this to that in all the wrong places, before figuring out how to velcro the waist panels ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
The Book of Women by Laux Dorianne
mobi |eng | 2012-12-04 | Author:Laux, Dorianne [Laux, Dorianne]

Black She-Snake Speaks When I see him sliding toward me, parting the grass, his long body flaring in the noon sun, a black comet riding the earth, sawdust from the ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
The Lichtenberg Figures (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets) by Ben Lerner
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:Ben Lerner [Lerner, Ben]

Announcing a late style as distinctive as the late style of Matisse, my grandfather no longer speaks. The figure in my grandfather’s memory has disappeared completely. It has been replaced ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Patricia Lockwood

See a Furious Waterfall Without Water Never has an empty hand been made into more of a fist, and Waterfall Without it swings so hard it swings out of existence. ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
epub |eng | 2014-08-16 | Author:Kathleen Jamie

Roses for M D This is the moment the roses cascade over backstreet walls, throng the public parks – their cream or scrunched pinks unfolding now to demonstrate unacknowledged thought. ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Natalie Diaz

Consider your brother: he is dressed as a Judas effigy. When the waitress takes your order, your brother will ask for a beer. You will pour your thirty pieces of ...
( Category: United States August 16,2017 )
Home Burial by Michael McGriff
epub |eng | | Author:Michael McGriff

The cow noses through the same weak spot in the same fence, and every night finds herself moving out beyond the field of her dumb, sleeping sisters. The cow in ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing by Paul Muldoon
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Muldoon

NEAR THE GRACE OF GOD NAIL SALON In the slave castle at Cape Coast I saw slaves pushed from pillar to whipping post on their way out of Ghana by ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
The Odyssey by Fagles Robert & Homer & Knox Bernard
epub |eng | 1997-10-31 | Author:Fagles, Robert & Homer & Knox, Bernard [Knox, Bernard]

So he grieved but I tried to lend him heart: ‘About noble Peleus I can tell you nothing, 576 but about your own dear son, Neoptolemus, I can report the ...
( Category: Classics August 15,2017 )
At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield
epub |eng | 2016-12-06 | Author:Katherine Mansfield [Mansfield, Katherine]

8 The sun was still full on the garden when the back door of the Burnells’ shut with a bang, and a very gay figure walked down the path to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 15,2017 )
A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Merritt

Nor did a lot of other birders. Peregrines carried on quietly but steadily building up their numbers in their strongholds, until they reached the point at which the young birds ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 15,2017 )
Blackacre by Monica Youn
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Monica Youn

GREENACRE Gold flecked, dark-rimmed, opaque— like a toad’s stolid unsurprise— the lake never blinks its hazel eye. Manmade, five feet deep, the exact square footage of a city block. Lakewater ...
( Category: Poetry August 15,2017 )

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