Weston Cutter turns his regard to the rare enigma of the quotidian: shunning any suggestion of pretension in favor of an Ammonsian phrasing, “No Science” mulls over clues pulled from their contexts, tapping into questions of exclusion and intrusion, the thin distinction between durability and stability.
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“No Science” by Weston Cutter
November 18, 2009 – 2:04 pm
“Midday” by Yael Shinar
November 11, 2009 – 1:03 pm
Yael Shinar plots the fleeting moment of one life’s unraveling with a plaintive reverence for the often forgotten detail of qualia, the dull madness of life unto death and vice versa. Not exactly elegiac, by its meditative clinic “Midday” nonetheless gives the reader pause.
“At the Savoy” by Joseph Chapman
October 28, 2009 – 4:20 pm
There’s an argument to be made for poetry speaking spirit in terms of form and form in terms of spirit. With grace and restraint, Joseph Chapman’s “At the Savoy” channels ghosts and taps into a music of longing, offering up a penumbral portrait of human frailty and endurance.
“Balloons the Shape of Manhattan” by John Randolph Carter
October 21, 2009 – 2:08 pm
John Randolph Carter’s taut but rangy take on Americana merges familiar subjects and settings to a satisfyingly bizarre effect. His verse strikes a difficult balance between originality and appeal, luring in the audience with its tidy structure, friendly diction, and tasteful embellishment, only in the end to reveal its surprise as omen.
“THE PAINTED ROOM” BY HOWARD ALTMANN
October 14, 2009 – 4:40 pm
“Though there is an elegiac tone in the poem that cannot be denied, the lyric repetition is less about the futility in the world, than it is about the human spirit’s desire to trump it—to live, to live, to live.”
“FACTICITIES, ETC.” by Renée Ashley
October 7, 2009 – 12:53 pm
Refusing sentimentality and Byzantine turns of phrase, Renée Ashley’s “Facticities, Etc.” approaches the submerged body of the past not as a volume to be mined for final answers but as a load to take for granted.
“Prayer, 6/13/08″ by Jamie Quatro
September 9, 2009 – 5:20 pm
Loss of any kind can feel, to the bereaved, as much an ‘act of God’ as large-scale catastrophe.
“And, here and there, a kiss” by Paula Brancato
September 2, 2009 – 3:20 pm
“Even the fireflies linger” in Paula Brancato’s poem, “And, Here and There, A Kiss,” and don’t we all wish that the summer months would linger on as well?
“DON’T” by Rebecca Foust
August 26, 2009 – 1:33 pm
BOMB intern Jordan DeBor asks award-winning poet Rebecca Foust about the theme of fragility in her work. Featuring her poem “Don’t.”
While Michael Lays Dying by Rosemarie Castoro
July 2, 2009 – 12:27 pm
Before I was aware of the news, I just had a good friend for tea, and he helped me bring some pictures out in the light. Little did we know, an unveiling of another kind was happening in California.
“Letter” by Andrew Naymark
June 19, 2009 – 11:17 am
“To Cross Safely Over Thin Ice” by Melissa Monroe
April 29, 2009 – 1:03 pm
Melissa Monroe’s chillingly didactic “To Cross Safely Over Thin Ice” reads like a cross between ex-soldier recounting a particularly horrific war memory and an instruction manual.
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The Alchemist’s Prima Treatise by Joseph P. Wood
April 22, 2009 – 3:19 pm
Mid-phrase line and stanza breaks are just one way that Joseph Wood creates a feeling of moving through archaic symbols toward new life.
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