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A Destruction Story

Introduction by Ben Lerner

Dear Rose

by Ocean Vuong,

Introduction by Ben Lerner Oceans and roses are surely among the most shopworn images in poetry, as Ocean Vuong is well aware: “I place your finger on a flower so…

Remainers

by Graham Foust,

When I read Graham Foust, I’m put in mind of both Wallace Stevens and Johnny Cash. (Foust, who was born in Tennessee, entitled one poem “Nuances of a Theme by…

Cut With the Kitchen Knife

by Rosmarie Waldrop, Ben Lerner,

We conventionally use the period to punctuate a finished thought. But Rosmarie Waldrop, one of the most innovative poets in English, deploys the period as a rest, often musical, in…

The Drums of Marrakesh

by Mark McMorris,

A Jamaican-born poet chain-smokes as he listens to a circle of drummers in the old market of Marrakesh, circa 2015. The drums sound in the present, but they also sound…

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A Destruction Story

Dear Rose

Remainers

Cut With the Kitchen Knife

The Drums of Marrakesh

May 2018

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