The gap between potency and act, the scholar says, is demonstrated by this anecdote: A boy of 12, visiting a farm, is given a glass of buttermilk by the farmer’s wife who tells him, “Down the hatch, young man!” The boy drinks the buttermilk and almost vomits. Decades later at a County Fair a farmer’s […]
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On August 1, Graywolf will publish Roger Reeves’ Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. This is a gift of a book written by a poet with searing intelligence, whose escape into language—OutKast and Sun Ra, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Zora Neal Hurston, and Richard Wright—center his thinking about America’s troubled history. Reeves celebrate the playfulness of Black…
The magnificent Bosphorus smiled at me cheerfully And the dazzling Kiz Külesi stood in the middle of it profoundly Beyond it, the majestic Topkapi palace allured me in enchantment Subsiding all my devastation and resentment While strolling around, a spellbinding building captivated my attention I found out Sultanahmet Camii was its name The manifestation of…
Dedicated to my sweet Romanian friend V.D. Beauty is you, goodness is you, heart is you, love is you, soul is you, joy is you, flower is you smile is you, peace is you, light is you, life is you The post Joy Is You | Mónika Tóth appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to…
The day I realised that I’m just like everyone else. Clarity. I spent all my time thinking that I was different, unusual. [Apparently] I thought differently to everyone else. [I] Wanted, needed different things. Craved isolation. Solitude. Peace. Contentment. Simplicity overall. Fought the pre-programmed urges [resistance]. Rose above it all. Years of fighting. Fighting emotion….
