Such and Such a Time at Such and Such a Place by Heather Christle

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 7, 2014   Such and Such a Time at Such and Such a Place   Heather Christle

The lack of a single-word infinitive in our language is what is killing me   this morning                          A single word for all infinitives is what God is doing tonight   This is just one of many acts to have passed through the garden   Previously on this show they put a peacock back together wrong   after its demise                               Something there was in the syntax   Poor bird could feel it in his bones            Copyright © 2014 by Heather Christle. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “Sometimes (often), when I sit down to write, I become deeply conscious of all the other words/ideas/minds/bodies that have inhabited the space before me. In this poem I deal with that awareness by abandoning myself and god to give a brief (incomplete, inaccurate) recap of poetry thus far, as if it were a television show starring Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and a peacock.” —Heather Christle   Heather Christle is the author of What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012). She lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Most Recent Book by Christle   What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012) "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens "Out, Out–" by Robert Frost "Me and the Otters" by Dorothea Lasky Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038