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| Geoffrey Young Confession August/September 2003 In a siren voice the months are singing "Mood Indigo" I must wash their aftertaste down with a quart of Lethe for all the optimism I lost this winter. On shelves the alphabetical friction of names irritates. I move letters on the fridge, start a new work with "Every image is a sun and you’re hot." Often it happens a patient will announce he is going home, that he doesn’t like being old and sick anymore. But at the first quiver of oncoming doubt, after dumplings and beer at "Joe’s Shanghai," you can’t help but put the saw to my loftiest bough: "We will climb no further." That’s when I retreat like Keats to a balcony, splashing claret into an eyecup of visionary charm, looking back at your posture and haute command as you wrecked a kitchen for a sublime risotto. Then slowly, as in a decade of Melvilles, I get over the hump, like any miserable schlump. Geoffrey Young’s most recent book of poetry is Lights Out (with drawings by James Siena.) Other recent books include Admiral Fever (with drawings by Philip Knoll), Pockets of Wheat (drawings by James Siena), and Cerulean Embankments (drawings by Carroll Dunham.) His small press, The Figures (since 1975), has published more than 120 books of poetry, fiction and art writing. |
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The Rail invites you to a reading with Jason Flores-Williams and Brian Carreira, along with musical guest Steve Strunsky of the Lonesome Prairie Dogs. Thurs., Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m. Vox Pop--Flatbush, Brooklyn www.voxpop.net |
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OFF THE RAIL FALL 2005 at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library - Grand Army Plaza |
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The Independent Press Association-NY recently honored The Brooklyn Rail with the following awards: |