Living, as I do now, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I have begun to become interested in Dutch poetry. When I tell my friends I have moved to the west side of the state I am usually greeted with with reactions that hover between horror, dismay, disbelief and/or incredulity. I can understand this. […]
“Orpheus Naming the Parts” ZJC (2007)
I must thank my friend from Ituzaingo, Argentina, Queenie Damned, who sent me this fabulous Spanish translation of the poem Naming the Parts.
Thank you ever so much! You are wonderful!
Quién sabe lo que siente uno directo antes de impacto?
¿Dicha Negra? ¿La lujuria más aburrida? ¿La angustia del diablo
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“red bamboo” ZJC (2007)
I can understand my poetic grandparents of the 1920s and 1930s wanting to throw off the mantle of Formal poetry; let’s face it, after Romanticism the idea that perhaps rhyming poetry had gotten a bit stale, that forms for forms sake did not make the best verse was, I am sure, a […]
“old woman & cat” (2007)
Did I mention last Monday I was involved in a head-on collision that destroyed my car and banged up my knee? I didn’t? The good news is no one was hurt, not even the person who ran a stop sign on the icy road as I was entering the intersection […]
“fox pup fingers” (ZJC, 2007)
Imagine my dismay at finding out that the paws of a new born red fox are not yellow after all but black. I learned this after I had spent all day trying to get the colors in the fingers just so. I played around with the ideas that maybe […]