Monday, September 8, 2014

Maureen Alsop

Maureen Alsop has a great short piece in Diagram issue 14.4 called "Matins for Juliet". It's very interesting. Nature-focused poetry often falls short, but this piece does very well. It's got a real eye for style and particular branches of emotion. Since it's so short, I'll just excerpt the first line:

Temporal, the deer, your animal self curled down, moss sheltered & tenuous. It 
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