Thursday, April 10, 2014

Alan Shapiro

When I read "Faith" by Alan Shapiro here in Rattle issue 23, summer 2005, I knew I wanted to feature it. He's got a great way with language--it makes me think of walking through a beautiful New Orleans graveyard at dawn, through the coolness.

Here's an excerpt:

In no beyond or elsewhere all too bright
or dark to see by; not in the chilly joy
of preemptive mourning, the voodoo exchange of veil 

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