The Answer
The Trout Quintet is my answer
to everything today which begins
with snow on the ground and lather
on my face. I will shave with my father
in the mirror and then go downtown,
get a haircut, buy a new shirt,
and say hello to the branch manager of the bank
wearing a herringbone tweed jacket;
and the wound on my face will have healed
by the time I come home. Thank you,
Franz Schubert, not only for your Trout Quintet
but also for your Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat,
which Kubrick used in Barry Lyndon
and often serves as my answer of the day.
— David Lehman, from the current issue of Hanging Loose #114
Our 57th year of continuous publication, with covers and an art portfolio by Amy Masters. It features a supplement of poems curated by Hanging Loose author R. Zamora Linmark and a remembrance of Jack Anderson, plus Jack’s last poem.
Others included in this issue are regulars such as Sherman Alexie, Rosalind Brackenbury, Bill Christophersen, Harley Elliott, Joanna Fuhrman, David Lehman, Stephen Lewandowski, D. Nurkse, Tim Robbins, Marty Skoble, and Tom Wayman, plus many poets new to HL, among them: Jennifer Barber, Ace Boggess, Shaune Bornholdt, Debra Cash, Paula Cisewski, Wendy Drexler, Helen Ivory, Laura Judge, Li Bai (translated by Arthur Sze), Lynette Ng, Beth Brown Preston, Derek Shirae, Montana James Thomas, Marc Vincenz, and Pui Ying Wong ; and poems by four outstanding poets of high school age.
painting by Lois Dodd, “Window with Snow and Ice” (1983)
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