Words and Music by John Pluecker EXCERPTS: “Amy King is doing God’s work. Of course, I don’t mean God in a traditional Christian way; I mean God in the way that King speaks of God in her recent book, I Want to Make You Safe: …” “The video gave me the feeling of what I…
We Rise In the Bulbs of Night Organized into five “acts,” Slaves to Do These Things is, ostensibly, theatrical in terms of its development—though the dramatic action isn’t always quite clear. That’s alright. Mystery plays are rare at present. You might say that God is in her details—not that that means what you think it means.…
WHEN CATHOLIC GIRLS GO RIDING My Mexican pony turned again and found himself adrift amidst the Bambis of the Eastern shore. North Carolina is just as lovely this time of year, with soft brown eyes that look the same as air. I ride along, forgetting my comb, so I need to find a pattern for…
WHAT IT ISN’T… Over the past few days, there has been a flurry of recent debate on the Gurlesque (see my post below). Numerous contradictions, conflations, and confusions abound, coupled with not a lot of resolution or agreement regarding what has cumulatively “taken place” vis a vis the book itself (Ana Bozicevic touches on this…
Claude Cahun — “I Am in Training: Don’t Kiss Me” On the day after the blizzard of ’09 rushed up the coast and swallowed us fluffy white frio, Verse Daily has posted a poem from my new forthcoming book (to appear in days)! “State of a Nation” speaks of things… ~~ Blizzard is a state…
BOOK STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE by ANA BOZICEVIC Stars of the Night Commute haunts in three dimensions, knit by a below-words rumble in the sure rhythm of dreams. Many of the poems carry a shamanistic, elemental quality, as if real matter were articulating out of word-fragments. Božičević writes, “At the end of poetry the…
AMY KING 