Two Poems in Winter 2007 Michigan Quarterly Review

I have two poems included in the Winter 2007 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review: "H.D. in Prismatic Ecstasy" and "Two Ones Remain Two Ones."

Lots of good people in this issue including my friends Elizabeth Kostova, Jeremy Chamberlin, Travis Holland, Rachel Richardson and Tung-Hui Hu. Check it out here: http://www.umich.edu/~mqr/current.htm

The winter issue can be purchased for $9. Send a check to:

Michigan Quarterly Review
3574 Rackham Building
915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070

Also Notable

Narcissus Resists has been highlighted as an "Also Notable" manuscript for "prowess in composition and daring originality" in Caketrain's 2006 Chapbook Contest: www.caketrain.org

Nice to be in the top 5.

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

Last night I popped my Carnegie Hall cherry and saw their festival chorus presentation of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Stern Auditorium is quite majestic, and I enjoyed my balcony view perspective of the stage and the other balconies. Good people watching.

It struck me that though longer, part 2 of the Passion seemed to move faster than part 1. My friend Donovan burned me Klemperer's version back in grad school after I wrote an essay called "The Calling of Saint Matthew" and I'm listening to it now. I thought my father (he's a retired Lutheran minister) would be all over the fact I went, but he admitted to me he's never heard Bach's Saint Matthew Passion. Still, it was nostalgic to hear that one hymn that's repeated throughout; in the green hymnal we used growing up, the Lutheran Book of Worship, it is known as "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded." Brought back Sunday mornings from my childhood. The first appearance of it was at 15 in part 1, "Erkenne mich, mein Huter."

Perhaps it's time to revisit that essay...

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