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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

"My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency" by Matthew Olzmann

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October 22, 2019
 

My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency

 
Matthew Olzmann
"My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency" by Matthew Olzmann

About this Poem

 

"This poem began as a way to think about rhetoric and the strangeness of platitudes. I wanted to begin in cliché, not because it's an empty or vacuous bit of language, but because clichés have the paradoxical ability to communicate complex ideas quickly while simultaneously undermining that same act of communication. That paradox is where this poem beings."
Matthew Olzmann

 

Matthew Olzmann is the author of Contradictions in the Design (Alice James Books, 2016). He teaches at Dartmouth College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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October Guest Editor: Oliver de la Paz

 

Thanks to Oliver de la Paz, author of five collections of poetry, including The Boy in the Labyrinth (University of Akron Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Paz about his curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year.

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