“Access” comes from Abdourahman Waberi’s second collection of poems, "Naming the Dawn" (Seagull Books), and, like the other poems in this volume, is deeply spiritual and grounded in the Koran. The poet, on the path to beauty and truth, reminds us “the journey is long” and to appreciate the “simple, sincere” music of silence.
Nancy Naomi Carlson on"Access" |
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"A Review-in-Dialogue of Douglas Kearney"
Dean Rader and Victoria Chang discuss Douglas Kearney's "Sho." "Reading Kearney’s poems makes me wonder about the poem’s relationship to the reader. I genuinely feel alive and also eaten alive while reading these poems....I’m also fascinated by Kearney’s avoidance of lyric epiphanies, narrative, and overt arguments."
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Susan Tichy on Thomas A. Clark's The Threadbare Coat
"Unlike volumes that map a career, guiding readers through each book a poet has published, The Threadbare Coat offers poems from various publications sequenced to lead us anew up paths and across hillsides, to 'the fort of stillness' or 'the quiet island,' into 'woods & water' and 'sweet vernal grass,' at the speed of footsteps or the 'speed of the running wave.'" |
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