Little by little, In each hanging In each ugly word They lose it bit by bit, Ideals they once carried Promises they made, Lost in the tide Of their surging hatred.
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’Fess up. You bought a copy. I did this year, anyway. I actually buy the essay and short story anthologies in the Scribner Best of series year after year without fail because I tend to use them as inexpensive readers for my writing students, but I’m more selective with the poetry volumes of the same series….
“Lufthansa” is one of Tranter’s best and most anthologised poems. The poem is mimetic of one of its early lines: it seems “struck by an acute feeling of precision” which leaves little room for interpretation or “meaning” that extends beyond the surface of its language. Michael Brennan has astutely drawn comparisons between the poem’s “unity,…
Come lift up your glasses and drink what you may, I’m a man you don’t meet every day. I’m a man you don’t meet every day, every day, I’m a man you don’t meet every day! Related Stories “The Stamp of Impulse” [by Stacey Lehman] Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
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Wristwatches are very sensitive Like the old Timex that I retired When I got a new Timex from Amazon and the old Timex lay Cast off in a drawer for at least Five years without the battery Ever expiring all those years! I have now felt so bad for the Old Timex that I…
Part 1. of Jarad Bruinstroop’s triptych, “Pool Sweet, 2019”, is charged with risk and tempered by an understated bathos. Drawing associations between the Transfiguration of Jesus, one of the New Testament’s most important miracles and a major Christian feast day, and David Hockney’s Peter Getting out of Nick’s Pool, is exciting, transgressive and, the poem…
