Holy Heathen Rhapdsody by Pattiann Rogers

By Pattiann Rogers

“Pattiann Rogers is a visionary of truth, perceiving the fabric international with such depth of reaction that impulse, goal, which means, interconnections past the surface of visual appeal are published. Her language, unmarred via clichés, springs up out of a feeling of ways quite a few and eternally awesome are the different types of lifestyles and the human skill to note them.” — Denise Levertov

Pattiann Rogers has gained acclaim as the most unique voices in modern American poetry. The poems in her new assortment, Holy Heathen Rhapsody, include and embrace the forces of the Earth and the artistic strength of its lifeforms in the entire wildness in their types. Love in those poems is a strength infused with an identical inventive strength and depth, the purest manifestation of the will-to-be. This imaginative and prescient and its making contend that even a shadow or a floating seed, a frond of eco-friendly or a nighttime spider, even a mongrel puppy, wind over water, the human voice, the human witness, peace and guns, all?"every element and have encountered?"are absolutely endowed gamers within the dynamic song of the Earth.

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3-* A M AN A man’s mother is deathly ill He goes for a doctor He cries On the way he sees4iis wife with another man They are holding hands He follows them at a little distance From tree to tree He cries He secs a friend from his youth We haven’t seen one another in years! They stop in a bar They talk, they laugh The man goes out to pee on the patio He sees a young girl It’s nighttime She’s washing dishes The man goes over to her He grabs her waist They waltz together They leave together They laugh There’s an accident The girl is unconscious The man goes to find a telephone He cries He comes to a house with lights 011 He asks for a phone Someone recognizes him Stay for dinner man No Where’s the telephone Eat man eat Then you can go He sits down to eat He drinks like mad He laughs They make him recite He recites He ends up under a desk asleep.

Cuanto creen ustedes quc costo Demolcr esas masas dc concrcto? Solo la remocion dc la momia Del mausolco a la fosa comun Ha debido costar una fortuna. l Y cuanto crcen ustedes quc gastaremos En rcponcr esas estatuas sagradas? 48 TH E R U L E OF T H R E E Not counting The twenty million missing How much do you think the deification o f Stalin Came to in cold, hard dash. " ' Monuments cost money. What do you think it cost To pull down those concrete hulks? Simply moving the body Out o f the mausoleum to the common grave Must have cost a fortune.

Cordero de dios que lavas los pecados del mundo Dejanos fomicar tranquilamentc: No tc inmiscuyas en ese momento sagrado. SUPONGAMOS QUE ES HOM13KE PERFECTO supongamos que fuc crucificado supongamos incluso que sc lcvant6 dc la tumba —todo eso me tiene sin cuidado— lo que yo desearia aclarar es cl enigma del ccpillo de dientes hay que hacerlo apareccr como sea. 46 A G N U S DEI Horizon o f earth planets o f earth Tears, sobs held back The mouth spitting earth soft teeth The body nothing more than a bag o f earth Earth o f earth—earth o f worms.

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