Friday Pick: All That Is, By James Salter
Friday Pick: Literary Names, By Alastair Fowler
Fowler's most significant points concern the Elizabethan and Victorian eras, and he seems to have an overly bleak outlook on the post-modern age.
Friday Pick: James Dickey’s The Zodiac
In "The Zodiac" we see Dickey stretching his line foreword, moving toward prose, yet emphasising the raw rhythmic power, the incantatory lack of stasis that poetry possesses.
Friday Pick: Aidan Semmens’ The Book of Issac
Semmens interacts with the impressive intellect and accomplishments of his great grandfather in a way that extends his legacy rather than simply paying homage to it. It is the book of Issac. It is Aidan Semmens’ book.
Dolly Lemke
Thank you, boss, I really needed a Tiffany’s key chain // I definitely get the passion, Boss says / It’s like golf / Poetry = golf // Vomit...
Miriam Gamble
Where – aimlessly – did a guy like this / get hold of a thing like that, the mercenary wonders, though. / (A lovely piece: true vintage, if it’s a day.)...
B O D Y 2012 Pushcart Prize Nominations
B O D Y is delighted to announce our 2012 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Peter Jay Shippy
...in a pleather booth with the reddest ribs, / the friskiest whiskey, and our universal baby // monitor, punching its buttons and bending / antennae until we hear “Green Onions” ...
Gary Frances
It's hard to stand up / for women in the company of men. // They're such inconsequential beings. / The women are even worse.
Carly Wilson
When I turned thirteen I began to worry very much about rubber souls and I thought / Sex was a prayer where one bent at the waist. / At eighteen I knew even less on the exact science of the thing, though / Could perfectly salt-to-taste any young dish.