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Author Archives: Pearl
Loved then, Loved Now: Half a Loaf
Half a Loaf The whole loaf’s loft is halved in profile, like the standing side of a bombed cathedral. The cut face of half a loaf puckers a little. The bread cells are open and brittle like touching coral. It is nothing like the middle of an uncut loaf, nothing like a conceptual half which […]
Why I like poetry
I read novels. Not all novels but. In the exceptional one each sentence hooks forward and stands fresh in perspective. For example, “One of the doctors said that his boot had probably saved his life, and she felt like kissing it, although in all the confusion, no one knew exactly where it had ended up.” […]
Bhanu Kapil’s famous “12 Questions”
Over at Via Negativa where the Poetry Blogging Network happens there are interviews using Bhanu Kapil’s famous “12 Questions“. Chen Chen uses “12 Questions” for a number of poems in his new book: Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency Who was responsible for the suffering of your mother? What is the shape of your […]
Bob Hogg
Word went out Thursday that he was moving to palliative. By now you’ve probably heard of the quick decline of Robert Hogg and our loss of him on Sunday. I never did the math that he was 80. He was busy in the 60s with that zeitgeist of poetic excitement. He had a young energy. […]