From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Tue Dec 2 14:30:26 2008
From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:30:26 -0500
Subject: [Realpoetik] Thanh Tam Tuyen, translated by Linh Dinh
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*THANH TAM TUYEN
Definition of a Good Poem*
more than a species of frightful crow
white curtain a worried finger rubbing the eye
let's drop it into the sky's evening
a life as round as a green rice flake
third season of a year dripping milk
as lucky as a poem with agreeable consonants
syllogism needed
a man must die
you're a man so you must die
a public notice
sleep children the hearts of loved ones
a sacred journey without end conducted with blood
how many creative works completed
only to be summed up with a spoken word
you should use your work to say farewell to everyone
a line of poetry as good as a saying
a good poem is the final death
so long the bed the table the chair
one person two persons three persons
one person two persons three persons
*In the Name of*
* Au nom du front parfait profond—Eluard*
An imperfect love
Inside the soul of each eye
A shameful life
A mute chest without voice
Lips without laughing substance
Starving senses
An alley night surrounding window
A seated person forgetting time
Emotions demanding an exit
A free barren hand
Flowers declining youthful hair
Measured breaths
The survival of one person
The survival of many people
Innocent people
In the name of
Love freedom man
I have the right to call forth
Those who have died to show up
Those still alive to raise their hands
*translated from the Vietnamese by Linh Dinh
*
THANH TAM TUYEN was born in Vinh, northern Vietnam, in 1936, moved to Saigon
in 1954, emigrated to the US in 1983, and died in Minnesota in 2006. Drafted
into the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, he served two stints, 1962-1966,
then from 1968 until the end of the war in 1975. He was imprisoned for seven
years in remote Yen Bai by the victorious Hanoi government. His first and
most famous poetry collection, Tôi không còn cô độc [I'm No Longer
Desolate], was released in Saigon in 1956. That same year, he co-founded,
with Mai Thao, the groundbreaking literary journal Sáng Tạo [Creativity].
Thanh Tam Tuyen introduced a cleaner, starker music into Vietnamese poetry.
He was also the first Viet poet to write about jazz.
LINH DINH is the author of two collections of stories, *Fake House* (2000)
and *Blood and Soap* (2004), four books of poems, *All Around What Empties
Out* (2003), *American Tatts* (2005), *Borderless Bodies* (2006) and *Jam
Alerts* (2007), with a novel, *Love Like Hate*, scheduled to be released in
2009 by Seven Stories Press. His work has been anthologized in *Best
American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007* and* Great American Prose Poems from Poe
to the Present*, among many other places. Linh Dinh is also the editor of
the anthologies *Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam* (1996) and
*Three Vietnamese Poets* (2001), and translator of *Night, Fish and Charlie
Parker*, the poetry of Phan Nhien Hao (2006). *Blood and Soap* was chosen by
the *Village Voice* as one of the best books of 2004. He has also published
widely in Vietnamese. His latest project is the blog, The Lower
Half
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From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Tue Dec 16 14:31:10 2008
From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:31:10 -0500
Subject: [Realpoetik] Andrew Lundwall
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*PLEASE*
ancient tower
circling millennia
i want a storm
i know rings
try on each
what i think
i live in my life
i have a hawk
i perform
*ANDREJ*
eyes wide
fall distant
in the heavens
his traps murmur
his traps gesture
infinitely heavy
earth isolated
from all stars
looks far to trip
sky hands that hook
these hands all fall
they fall to andrej
*Andrew Lundwall *is the editor of *Scantily Clad Press *(
http://scantilycladpress.blogspot.com). His work has appeared in numerous
print and electronic literary journals internationally, including *PFS Post,
Big Bridge, Shampoo, Moria, Near South, Miami Sun Post's Mad Love, 88: A
Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Otoliths, rock heals,* and *
Blazevox*. He has released two chapbooks, *klang* (deep cleveland press,
2006) and *funtime* (Funtime Press, 2007), a collaboration with Adam Fieled.
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From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Fri Dec 26 11:19:33 2008
From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:19:33 -0500
Subject: [Realpoetik] Patricia Lockwood
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*The Pro-Vivisection Poems*
Apes, especially, will not feel a thing, and all fanned out,
will not be measurably less, like whores arrived on other sides
of wormholes minus orange-blossom perfume, split lips,
and half-moon marks in huge-pored peels, minus tall unfeeling
fruit, numb spots along a spine. Earthworms especially,
who have no arms, are happy to have them sliced away;
delimit me, say diamondbacks, and severalize me, say spotted
mice; dogs are glad to see your scalpel, glad to be wiped
clean on your sleeve. Horses are happy to be born half-horse--
near the end they remember almost nothing: how they
survived on scraps, how the air was a stepped and shining
pyramid of fish parts, how it was winter and weedy necks
were happy to be stretched over stumps, when you
appeared to them, mythical, half-seen and half-man.
*Patricia Lockwood*'s poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary,
Chelsea, Many Mountains Moving, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Please find
her at http://emperoroficecreamcakes.blogspot.com.
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