I have three poems in Issue Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2010 of Knockout Literary Magazine: “Letter to Mexico,” “What I Preach I Preach For the Sake of What We Excavate,” and “What Twenty Titles and Nine Drafts Later I Still Could Not Say.”
All three are from my manuscript The Erotic Postulate. The two “What…” poems complete a “What…” triptych with “What Part of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Don’t You Understand?” published in Mantis a few years back. “Letter to Mexico” is a bit of an homage to Hart Crane’s “Voyages” and influence. And “What I Preach…” is the poem I mentioned a few posts back when I had that “aha!” moment when reading the Iliad.
The issue includes nonfiction by Paul Lisicky, short fiction by Kim Chinquee, translations by Lawrence Schimel, and lots of poetry: Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth J. Colon, J. P. Dancing Bear, Charlotte Innes, Charles Jensen, Campbell McGrath, Stephen S. Mills, Amisha Patel, Richard Siken, Robert Walker, and many more!
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I put your copy in the envelope that it will arrive in. This means you can dust it for my fingerprints in case you ever need them.
Oooh. I read my copy cover to cover on the plane to Montreal yesterday. Now our fingerprints are all mixed up. Perhaps Verbot can scan and distinguish and I can write a poem for you and inscribe it in the swirls of your fingerprints.