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By David Grundy
Jayne Cortez riffed on jazz, the blues, and R&B in poems whose "supersurrealism" sought to transform reality.
Essay
By Wang Ping
Seeing a poem as a kernel in which a civilization is embedded.
Poem
By Jayne Cortez
i am new york city
here is my brain of hot sauce
my tobacco teeth my
mattress of bedbug tongue
legs…
here is my brain of hot sauce
my tobacco teeth my
mattress of bedbug tongue
legs…
Poem
By Wang Ping
....................... hello hello hello ... Weiwei ... where have you been? ... I see you in dreams ... bleeding ... in the darkness of the sun ... 81 spots in the flame ... each a nightmare one cannot wake up from ... Weiwei ... the last son ... you told me as we said goodbye ... your last night on the Lower East...
Poem
By Mark Waldron
manifold we tippytoed
niminy-piminy out of the enormous green door
and into the money
monkeys in …
niminy-piminy out of the enormous green door
and into the money
monkeys in …
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I
blacker and more beautiful than
I
imagined.
the universe
blacker and more beautiful than
I
blacker and more beautiful than
I
imagined.
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By Mirabai
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every word over top every
other
every word over top every
other
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Time does not move in one direction. Time is never
straight.
Time does not move in one direction. Time is never
straight.
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That’s what poetry is: a wind, a leaf of grass that ties time and space
together.
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