so-soSome of the poems took my breath away, the prose-ier ones with longer lines, they flowed so well and sounded so natural and profound. Most of the poems had incredibly choppy short lines, sometimes just one or two words per line, which is a totally legit creative decision but made them so impossible to read for me, I found them pretty exhausting and bad to work hard to decode what they were saying, then I didn‘t remember or connect with them well.
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It's just that having taken the land from one people and then dragged another people from their continent to work on it for free and decided that you want California Texas Montana Idaho New Mexico Arizona so you take that from another people I mean when I think Los Angeles was a Mexican City in 1848. We just thought we would take it. And now we're going to build a wall.
Anyone here could probably tell me how many countries have legally elected socialist presidents, and moderate presidents and communist presidents and much revered and inspiring presidents and our government in response utterly disregarding their electoral process funded a right-wing autocrat, a monarchist,a human rights violator who would make a deal. I dont know if we are the most corrupt nation on earth.Does it need to start there?..
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Excerpt from poem 'Evolution'
Something
unearthly
about
today
so I buy
a Diet Coke &
a newspaper
a version of "me"
something
about me on the
earth & its sneakers
& feeling like
the earth's furniture
but that can't be
true or like
the coke &the Times
it's true for a little
while....
The sea
of blood & consciousness
& barely repressed
craziness that's
singing in my
ears only
likes one thing
always like
her favorite
food.
pickThe experimental New York poet returns with her first new collection since her career-spanning I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems and she ruminates on many things - her parents, dogs, and of course the current political landscape. Her poems are challenging, frenziedly moving through a host of topics, the product of a sharp rapid-fire mind.
Evolution | 
