chris at
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reading from Farid Martuk's Is It The King?
(effing press, 2006) * :
Of Mule and Deer
Out of a tin-cold, murmuring black wood
Lightly you lope, pale deer, lifting
A story from pages of snow
Nothing turns in your eye they say
Toward the tin-cold and murmuring black wood
I bear a display case of blue light
Say it was the sky
Say all you want it was the sky
(7)
* What a wonderful book, Farid! I was out of the US when it came out (am still out of the US), so unfortunately missed the moment, but then fortunately happened on a copy at the Dallas Museum of Art while visiting with dottir Heather last August. So very pleased to have this book, these kalaidescopic poems! I miss y'all--hello and happy wishes to all my friends in Dallas and Austin!
