“If you like to be spooked by poems, if you like poems to send you back into your quotidian existence with a more acute sense of its weirdness and charm, read “How to Mend Small Children” carefully. Edwards’ poems offer solutions to bizzaro problems and alchemic transmogrifications for exotic items, but their miraculous nature really [...]
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To Mend Small Children by B.C. Edwards
Posted in Art, Augury Books, Fire, Poetry, tagged Augury, Augury Books, B.C. Edwards, Foretelling on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
FAMILY OF MANY ENZOS by Paige Lipari
Posted in Art, Augury Books, Poetry, tagged Paige Lipari, Poem, Poetry on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Family of Many Enzos “In Family of Many Enzos, Paige Lipari conjures a night kitchen that pulses with memory and fantastical incident. Volcanoes provide the heat, while “the red moon only comes out on the nights we stuff artichokes.” The cooking, too, is hardly homey: “enemies/ will be picking/ bones from their loaf,” and be [...]
