and the

winner is...

linhelen

Address needed/books in mail on Monday.

Congrats and thanks all for participating!

nox

Some things Anne Carson said tonight:

I thought a lot about vanishing anyway.

My profession is about having an effect

on people by making sentences.

A real moment of exhilaration came

when I discovered staples.

Overtakelessness.

I wanted to fill my elegy with light

of all kinds. But death makes us stingy.

Helplessness built a wall in her.

Prowling the meanings of a word,

prowling the history of a person,

no use expecting a flood of light.

But all those little kidnaps in the dark.

Anne Carson read from her new book,

Nox, an elegy to her brother who died.

She calls it, "an epitaph in the form of a book."

I went to Poets House in New York, an amazing

place near the foot of Manhattan.

Here is Carson's translation of a poem

by Catullus that she says has been with her

since high school -- #101. He wrote it

as an elegy to his brother.

Many the peoples many the oceans I crossed--

I arrive at these poor, brother, burials

so I could give you the last gift owed to death

and talk (why?) with mute ash.

Now that Fortune tore you from me, you

oh poor (wrongly) brother (wrongly) taken from me,

now still anyway this -- what a distant mood of parents

handed down as the sad gift for burials -

accept! soaked with tears of a brother

and into forever, brother, farewell and farewell

going ggggaggaa

This video is making the rounds. It brought a little lift

to another rainy chilly day. Only a few days left to join

in my poetry giveaway. Come on, add your name, you

know you want to!

sometimes

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal
living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

-Carl Sandburg

giving

The Poetry Book Giveaway is happening here.

Send me your name and email -- you have

until April 30. Then on May 1 I will select

at random one name and mail you one

copy of the above books, postage paid!

And the winner will actually receive eight,

yes, EIGHT chapbooks for free. That's because

Toadlily Press features the Quartet Series,

four chaps under one roof. My chapbook,

The End of the Body, is part of The Fifth

Voice. Such a deal.

haunt

This image haunts me. From a book out this month by Siglio Press, The Torture of Women,
a series of paintings made by Nancy Spero in the 1970s. I bet the book is expensive.
I need to learn more about this artist. (I like that the word haunt is etymologically
related to home.)

paintings

Poetry Book Giveaway

I've been hemming and hawing. What if no one is out there. What if no one signs up. I missed the deadline, proscrastinator. Then a note on Kelli Russell Agodon's blog that there's still room. A sign. I'm in! And thanks to Kelli for this great idea. Participating bloggers give away two books, their own and one other. The winner will receive my chapbook, The End of the Body, which is part of The Fifth Voice, published by Toadlily Press in its Quartet Series. The other is a favorite (also out from Toadlily Press), By Way Of. It features chaps by 4 poets: Diana Alvarez, Emily Carr, Matthew Nienow and Diana Woodcock.

Check out the Toadlily website for more info. To enter, leave a comment with your name on this post letting me know you're interested. You have until April 30. Then on May 1, I'll randomly select a name and ship the books (postage on me) to the winner. It's that easy.

flaw