Julia Bloch | Letters to Kelly Clarkson | Sidebrow | 2012
“Dear Kelly, // I was moving one square of air from one corner of the country to another, / I held that square in my mouth or cheek so I could still talk, breathe, even / sing while holding it.”
CA Conrad | A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon | Wave | 2012
“what I really want / is to scatter / my own / ashes”
Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Draft 96: Velocity | Little Red Leaves | 2011
“tight astride the no of Yes, / inside a stranger, starker yes of No.”
Susana Gardner | Herso | Black Radish | 2011
“what was once unwanted / so wavering was now so — this new I, / small hero.”
Jenn McCreary | Odyssey & Oracle | Least Weasel | 2011
“I don’t think / of a white bear so hard, I can’t think of a wish.”
Lisa Robertson | Nilling | Bookthug | 2012
“26. Thus the interdiction against reading — it was Rousseau who said that any girl who reads is already a lost girl. The codex has lent her its secrecy. She will read in spite of any law.”
Elizabeth Robinson | Three Novels | Omnidawn | 2011
“The soft, mathematical breath of a nocturne. The fresh paint on the doorsill / clings to the nightclothes of this apparition.”
Juan José Saer, trans. Steve Dolph | Scars | Open Letter | 2011
“The fourth time I saw her I was on the bus and she was standing on the corner. I watched her from the rear window until she disappeared. A month later I was the one standing on the corner while she passed on the bus. Then I didn’t see her for several months, and finally I forgot about her.”
Cole Swensen | Gravesend | California | 2012
“actually exists the proper name of an excised space”
Laura Walker | Follow-Haswed | Apogee | 2012
“pencils / exhaust / all of the sentences of Engish”
Matvei Yankelevich | Alpha Donut | United Artist | 2012
“BUSTER: The novel will be about Paris / because no one will let me go to Paris / where love is free. VLADIMIR: Everyone gets / their just desserts. BUSTER: All I get is jello.”
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Pattie McCarthy is the author of bk of (h)rs, Verso, Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, and Marybones (forthcoming), all from Apogee Press. Her most recent chapbook is L&O, published by Little Red Leaves. A 2011 Pew Fellow in the Arts, she teaches literature and creative writing at Temple University.
Pattie McCarthy’s contributions to Attention Span for 2011, 2010. Return to 2012 directory.
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Julia Bloch | Letters to Kelly Clarkson | Sidebrow | 2012
“Dear Kelly, // I was moving one square of air from one corner of the country to another, / I held that square in my mouth or cheek so I could still talk, breathe, even / sing while holding it.”
CA Conrad | A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon | Wave | 2012
“what I really want / is to scatter / my own / ashes”
Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Draft 96: Velocity | Little Red Leaves | 2011
“tight astride the no of Yes, / inside a stranger, starker yes of No.”
Susana Gardner | Herso | Black Radish | 2011
“what was once unwanted / so wavering was now so — this new I, / small hero.”
Jenn McCreary | Odyssey & Oracle | Least Weasel | 2011
“I don’t think / of a white bear so hard, I can’t think of a wish.”
Lisa Robertson | Nilling | Bookthug | 2012
“26. Thus the interdiction against reading — it was Rousseau who said that any girl who reads is already a lost girl. The codex has lent her its secrecy. She will read in spite of any law.”
Elizabeth Robinson | Three Novels | Omnidawn | 2011
“The soft, mathematical breath of a nocturne. The fresh paint on the doorsill / clings to the nightclothes of this apparition.”
Juan José Saer, trans. Steve Dolph | Scars | Open Letter | 2011
“The fourth time I saw her I was on the bus and she was standing on the corner. I watched her from the rear window until she disappeared. A month later I was the one standing on the corner while she passed on the bus. Then I didn’t see her for several months, and finally I forgot about her.”
Cole Swensen | Gravesend | California | 2012
“actually exists the proper name of an excised space”
Laura Walker | Follow-Haswed | Apogee | 2012
“pencils / exhaust / all of the sentences of Engish”
Matvei Yankelevich | Alpha Donut | United Artist | 2012
“BUSTER: The novel will be about Paris / because no one will let me go to Paris / where love is free. VLADIMIR: Everyone gets / their just desserts. BUSTER: All I get is jello.”
§
Pattie McCarthy is the author of bk of (h)rs, Verso, Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, and Marybones (forthcoming), all from Apogee Press. Her most recent chapbook is L&O, published by Little Red Leaves. A 2011 Pew Fellow in the Arts, she teaches literature and creative writing at Temple University.
Pattie McCarthy’s contributions to Attention Span for 2011, 2010. Return to 2012 directory.
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