The Art Divas / Divas of Verse
Blog of Rabih Alameddine
Friday, August 5, 2016
Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
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Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the view...
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Telemachus by Ocean Vuong
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Telemachus Like any good son, I pull my father out of the water, drag him by his hair through white sand, hi...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
At Nights Birds Hammered My Unborn by Ishion Hutchinson
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At Nights Birds Hammered My Unborn At nights birds hammered my unborn child’s heart to strength, each strike bri...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden
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Epitaph on a Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to underst...
Monday, August 1, 2016
Poem Beginning with a Line of Wittgenstein by Donald Hall
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Poem Beginning with a Line of Wittgenstein The world is everything that is the case. Now stop your blubbering an...
Sunday, July 31, 2016
The Way Things Work by Jorie Graham
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The Way Things Work The way things work is by admitting or opening away. This is the simplest form of curr...
Against Winter by Charles Simić
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Against Winter The truth is dark under your eyelids. What are you going to do about it? The birds are silent; there's no ...
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