THE BROKEN AND THE DAMNED | By Jason Hardung | 90 pages | $15.00 | Epic Rites Press
Love is the blank space
in a magician’s hand.
It used to be a red ball
maybe a coin,
the queen of spades,
a dove
so disoriented
by fingers
it flew
towards the sun
only to be eaten
by a hawk.
(from love is)
I sat down with Jason Hardung’s the [...]
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started reading Hemingway’s stories and novels more than fifty years ago I was fascinated by the way he put his sentences together. For the most part, they were unadorned, pared down to a kind of muscular zen essence. Hemingway rarely ever used adjectives. Or, if he did, they were very [...]
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the poetry is any good it comes to us with the poet’s blood smeared on it like a primitive announcement, a declaration. Here I am, it says, complete with all my anger, my rage, my skin and my bones. I have wounds to show you and I have stories to tell. [...]
Blind Willie Johnson
Huddled in the ruins of his
burned-out Beaumont home,
not a single goddamed place to go,
turned out from the infirmary
for being black and blind
and not worth saving,
shivering in a rain-soaked bed,
too sick to go sing on his corner,
the milky water filling those
strong, beautiful lungs.
Blind Willie Johnson,
shaking and trembling,
thinking back on a ravaged life,
back to strumming [...]
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