{"id":1377,"date":"2008-07-25T00:41:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T06:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2008-07-25T04:43:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T10:43:18","slug":"poetry-friday-not-for-prudes-maybe-not-for-vegetarians-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Not for prudes. Maybe not for vegetarians*, either."},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAM!The other night I was hanging out with The Poets Upstairs in their apartment. We were talking books and poetry (surprise!) and they asked if I’d heard of Phyllis Janowitz<\/strong><\/a>. “Nope,” I said. Well, they said, this will not do. She’s a professor of theirs at Cornell, and they feel very strongly that she is AWESOME and should be more widely known. Then Dana<\/strong><\/a> read the first part of this poem, “Veal,”<\/strong><\/a> to me, and my jaw dropped. “That IS awesome,” I said. They pushed me out the door with two of her books and some blueberry buckle<\/strong><\/a>. Or was it the lemon blueberry tart<\/strong><\/a>? I forget – they were both delicious<\/em>. But the POEMS, people! Oh. My. God. I find myself in total agreement: we should all know who Phyllis Janowitz is.<\/p>\n

See what you think:<\/p>\n

I love to watch the butcher
\nwipe the sharp
\nblade on his
\napron stained
\nwith fresh blood. I’m
\ngoing to marry him <\/p>\n

—-<\/font>WHAM <\/p>\n

the side of beef split open
\nhe tenderly spreads
\nit like a woman’s legs
\nbetween smeared fingers
\nstroking the cold smoothness <\/p>\n

from his fingertips
\n———–<\/font>bloody red
\ndrops on the floor spotting
\nthe sawdust there fluffs of fat
\nlie covered decently
\nthe meat is red and lean. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Want more? Here’s the rest.<\/strong><\/a> And spread the word.<\/p>\n

(*I’m a vegetarian. I still like the poem. I’m pretty<\/em> sure it’s not really about meat.)<\/p>\n

* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n

Yay! Our sisters in two-girl-blogdom, Franki and Mary Lee, are hosting this week’s Poetry Friday roundup at A Year of Reading<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks, ladies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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