An Interview with Cyrus Console
“I think poetry’s odds, at this point, are as good as those of any other human endeavour, maybe better.”
On Being-With
“There is a pleasure in this contraction and expansion, the diminishment of the sphere of speaking and the enlargement of the texture of air”
Three Poems
“He called ‘beloved Son Herman’ / docile and amiable, backward in / speech and somewhat slow in / comprehension.”
The Heroic Cry in the Midst of Despair
“Their forms, colors and motifs conform to a sacred language.”
Thinking
“I doubt that I can escape doubt.”
Two Poems
“For what duration / can purpose be / suspended?”
Severance Songs
“Avant-pastoralists do not shy away from or whitewash the disunities, contradictions, deceptions, and dangers of post-industrial reality”
From “Communist Couplets”
“Now my 2 p.m. insists on a Cape Verde wedding.”