Shit Hike Placebomens

Shit Hike PlacebomensCallie Garnett A walking poet, Callie Garnett often composes poems while out on a tramp, but this newlyweds current hike brings about a dramatic change of sceneryfrom a media centric city life to an unkempt plot of countryside that must, like her life itself, be husbanded. After the honeymoon that opens this book, the unspoken what next? begins to blare loudly. This turn of the plow could unearth motherhood but, in Garnetts case, it turns up something

a real sideshow performer brought to the United States at the turn of the 20th century

” the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross

or a pink one on its way

whose verse ranged from short lyrics to longer poems and extended sequences

Oude geliefden

Michaïl Lermontov

' writes Maggie Nelson

” Almeida’s versions re-perform the poems’ magic

Adrienne Rich

’ Connor works in folds rather than rounds

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