Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Definitely Not Lemmings #35


A warm welcome to N. G. Lykomitros who joins us from Athens, Greece. Nikos studied English Language and Literature and did graduate work in translation at the University of Athens; his first book of poems was published by Gavriilidis Editions ( Athens 2010) and translated into Spanish by a mutual friend, the Spanish poet and translator Mario Domínguez Parra.

Monday, September 12, 2011

For the Last Time, I'm Telling You All I Know

Say it was translated
Into intelligible speech,
This poet’s sibyllic

Song would still sound
Like no song ever
Heard before.



Sunday, September 11, 2011

In Terrorem

Remember:

in

ter
min

able,
un

flinch
ing

err

or
un

er

ring
ly

true,

e
pluribus

unum
skull

and
bones,

red
white,

blue.


Saturday, September 10, 2011

On Second Thoughts

This rock is so set
In its ways, it refuses

To budge an inch,
Even if you

Give it a mile.


Friday, September 9, 2011

Poet Milking Sacred Cow




Victual Reality, Or How American Poets Are Turning
The Poem Into Tripe


Merle’s
hag-

gard
old

sagging
cow

belly’s
gone

to
pot.


The photograph late April 1975, half-way through a coast-to-coast motoring trip from Seattle to Boston; the poem twenty-some years later—maybe our titillating poet should have thought twice before regurgitating it.
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