POETS
Oliver de la Paz
Self-Interview
How do you advise a reader to approach these new poems? With a dictionary? A suspended sense of reality? A bit of history? Now is you chance to speak to readers who find this kind of work foreign.
Imagine that each poem is a postcard written in secret to someone whom you love and loathe in equal measure.
Poetry
Dear Empire [these are your salt flats]
By
These are your salt flats. They lie past the highways, past the towns with gas stations whose names sear the eye in mono-syllable and neon.
Topical Poem
At Villequier
By
Now that Paris, its cobbles and effigies,
And fog and roofs are far enough from my eyes;
Now that I'm beneath the boughs of trees,
And I can muse on the beauty of the skies;
CREDITS
Study for 'Returning to the Trenches'": Painting by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1914-15
Topical poem image: Town With Tumbledown Bridge, drawing by Victor Hugo
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