Collection: Fuse
Author: Marc McKee
Excerpts:
From “The Value of Information Calculator”
From “The Value of Information Calculator”
Soon I will
cloudburst, soon hailstone tell you,
about the girl
on the bus who keeps singing
a cloying
chorus from Wheeling, West Virginia
to Springfield,
Ohio because she can’t remember
any other
words. Backyards in Ohio.
Often sad.
About the 75% to scale Johnny Cash
with coke
bottle glasses who hitches from Ontario
to Louisville
to be rejected when he meets
his love face
to face. Daily we are rifled,
even our
history of ideas can’t cope...
and
From “How to
Stitch Flame”
Hold an unlit
match near a lit match.
The Hagakure
says It is bad when one thing
becomes two but this isn’t what’s happening.
What’s
happening is even at midnight
it’s like soup
outside when soup is left
too long on a
burner, and the gauzy billows
whip briefly
over the skin of the moon.
Hold the jaw of
a lion near the neck
of a gazelle, a
piece of string near
an oscillating
fan, a phone next to an ear
that will hate
the news. Now you are
holding one
match near another...
Recommended by:
Sean Hill, author of Blood Ties &Brown Liquor (UGA Press) and Dangerous Goods, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.
Sean Hill, author of Blood Ties &Brown Liquor (UGA Press) and Dangerous Goods, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.
Stated Simply:
With exhilarating twists and edifying turns, these poems are the best thrill rides I found in 2011! In these expansive poems McKee turns his eye out to the world and gathers it all in. I love the way he accumulates so much energy in his embrace.
With exhilarating twists and edifying turns, these poems are the best thrill rides I found in 2011! In these expansive poems McKee turns his eye out to the world and gathers it all in. I love the way he accumulates so much energy in his embrace.
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