This poem is part of a series that I am generating from cut-up cookbooks, coming from my background working as a cook and a butcher. Rather than write about the experience of working in kitchens, I am using this process to write from it. “Skeleton Rules” is sourced from Sylvia Humphrey’s ""A Matter of Taste" and was the first poem I wrote after realizing that this project also deals with addiction and recovery.
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Jenny Xie Revisits China's Past
“'The Cultural Revolution was like a surreal nightmare. It’s a wake-up call today to read Jenny Xie,' the poet and novelist Qiu Xiaolong, who was a teenager in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, wrote in an email. 'In poetics, she chooses a uniquely working form, controlled language, to mold these inhuman experiences into an organic whole.'”
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Robin Myers on Javier Peñalosa M.'s "The Crane"
"I’d describe 'The Crane' as a deceptively narrative poem, in the way that a dream can present what feels like a coherent story you’ll then struggle to recapitulate once you’re conscious again. The story, as it were, is more like a snapshot remembered: the speaker finds an injured crane in a boat by a riverbank and uses an oar to put the bird out of its misery, an act that fills him both with shame and with a feeling of identification he can’t quite describe." |
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