We Like Poems Here
y dear friend, Sivan Butler-Rotholz, is the poetry editor of As It Ought To Be. Her selections are always poignant examples of excellent progressive, contemporary poetry happening in the United States.* She has a mean and beautiful eye.
Her note on this Saturday’s poet:
Part contemplation, part meditation, part manifesto, today’s poem considers the world of the word, the sentence, and the book. Here we have a body constructed upon the bone structure of Language poetry, shrouded in prose form and driven by syntax, sharing its spine like a Siamese twin with the idea of the book. Dense with ideas and littered with intimacy, eroticism, and nature in all her reproductive glory, journey through the mind of the poet with today’s exploration of “The book.”
The blog itself is a testament to the inter-linking of art and politics and run by some of the finest minds in both spheres of thought. Go look.
*Full disclosure: this writer has been published by AIOTB.
