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Books

  • #12: copies: I loved you in the hard old way by
  • Newsers
  • SOMETHING’S MISSING IN THIS MUSEUM
  • The Rattle Egg by Terri Witek
  • WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry
  • Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry
  • Poesia Visual 5
  • The Rape Kit
  • Body Switch
  • First Shot At Fort Sumter / Possum
  • Exit Island
  • The Shipwreck Dress
  • Carnal World
  • Fools & Crows
  • Robert Lowell & Life Studies

Fools & Crows

Poems by Terri Witek

Terry Witek’s Fools and Crows takes the ancient discipline of ekphrasis—a poet’s description of a work of art—to a new level of intensity. In her explorations of Renaissance paintings, of Roman Catholic holy cards, of the Vision of Our Lady of Fatima, the poet locates the matter and spirit of the human condition, our desires to connect, to worship, to elude death. These lyric unveilings and expositions recall the beautiful exactitudes of Marianne Moore’s poetry. They are the elucidations of a luminous intelligence, shadowed by grief and joy.

—Mark Jarman

Selections

  • This Way Out
  • The Lenticular Life of Christ
  • Bosch’s Birds

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