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Poem Beginning in Loneliness
Let’s start
with the loneliness
of beauty
o human
in this mottled world
how deep and cold
the standing stone
and sweet the light
warming its flank
and all the earth breathing
the stream snappy
as lion cubs tangling
with small guttural roars and swipes
tumbling
over rocks
the moon a sow
lolling
on her side
and the sun ____ beyond words
blind one furnace
who started all this
and still
I want I want
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Marsha de la O’s new book, Creature, came out from Pitt Poetry Series in January 2024. Her previous book, Every Ravening Thing, also from Pitt, came out in 2019. Antidote for Night (BOA Editions) won the 2015 Isabella Gardner Award. Her first book, Black Hope, published by New Issues Press, was awarded the New Issues Press Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College and has published extensively in journals and anthologies, including two recent poems in The New Yorker. In addition, her work was featured by Tracy K. Smith in The Slowdown. [Author photo by Trinity Wheeler.]
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Illustration from a medieval German medical-astronomical compendium of healthy living. The book reflects the scientific view of the time that planetary configurations affect a person’s well-being.
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