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Spring Feature 2015
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Feature
- Poets in Person Jane Hirshfield from San Francisco, CA
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Poetry
- Sandra Alcosser
- David Baker
- Chana Bloch
- David Bottoms
- Cyrus Cassells
- Carl Dennis
- Stephen Dunn
- Laura Fargas
- Sandra M. Gilbert
- Jane Hirshfield
- Ted Kooser
- Dorianne Laux
- Thomas Lux
- Mary Mackey
- Wesley McNair
- Dunya Mikhail
- Joseph Millar
- Jim Moore
- D. Nurkse
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Robert Pinsky
- Gerald Stern
- Jean Valentine
- Rosanna Warren
- Matthew Zapruder
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BOOK REVIEW
- David Rigsbee reviews The Beauty
by Jane Hirshfield
- David Rigsbee reviews The Beauty
Feature > Poetry
Chanel
I am an orphan Light my cigarette
Just so The perfect profile intaglioed in air
Now let the hems down Now we slash
the collar And when a man enters
always make him pay Always
a stray prince around before the casino closes
This century tilts I'm good at sphinxing
Elegance excludes I exclude
milk waste tears uterus Do I
remember the lard-colored orphanage halls
No I refuse Place a Coromandel screen
in front of the car wreck and your
world war My demi-monde It took 128 ingredients
We live in an age with no interiors
and his blood festooned the pavement by the crumpled car
Boy Capel the only man I
Embellishment gives way to line
and ease of motion A Bugatti flair
Wealth assuming the proportion
of catastrophe And if the other was a German officer
how does that affect the drape of sleeve
I'm on my knees with a corona
of pins bristling from my lips It's not
adoration It's revenge