LARB Digital Edition by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Author:Gabrielle Calvocoressi [Books, Los Angeles Review of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Los Angeles Review of Books
Published: 2014-06-30T07:00:00+00:00

But glancing at you and seeing the smile

that this lemon condition produced

(so at odds with my greed and guile),

my blood blacked out inside my shirt,

and through that porous golden breast

I felt a pointed, dazzling hurt.

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Share’s first collection of his own work, Union, published by Zoo Press in 2002, actually begins with a translation of another Spanish poet, Luis de Góngora. Share uses poems by Góngora and Francisco de Quevedo, two 16th-century masters of the Spanish sonnet, to introduce each of the book’s three sections. The first is a small catalog of apocalyptic visions — “split clouds, broken-mouthed winds, / high towers kissing their own foundations” — but the poet, though he lives in “days like Noah’s,” can only think of his own worries:

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