3:AM in Lockdown 65: Charles Leitner
So Fondly Do They Sing By Charles Leitner. What do you think of the ship Pequod, the ship of the soul of an American? Many races, many people, many nations, under the Stars and Stripes. Beaten with many stripes. Seeing stars sometimes. – D.H. Lawrence The city is quiet and the nights seem to […]
Poem Brut #94 – Lymph Odes
lymph odes is an evolving poetic series that hopes — in its gestures and paradoxes — to exhibit the staged resolution of oncological traumas. One of the defining “hallmarks of cancer” is metastasis; in the Greek, ‘displacement’. The (ill)legibility of these poems, or ‘stagings’, is an attempt to aspirate the shifts and convictions, the matter-of-factness, the secluded anguish, and the sterile irony of a singular/personal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis at the age of twenty. Their visual starkness presents the exposure of lived realities, offering parallax displacements to perceptions and depictions of cancer, remission, and the chemotherapeutic experience.
In the 94th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Enis Yucekoralp.