This month we are featuring eight new poems by four The Common contributors:
September 2013 Poetry Feature
September 23, 2013
Poetry
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West Eugene Dawn, Summer Solstice
The first sound is the gong
Of a dumpster, kicked possibly
By one of the homeless twins
Who live at The Mission, followed
By the rattle of glass and aluminum—
Signs of early success—against the cages
Of their grocery carts filled with cans, bottles,
Anything stamped with 5¢ deposit
Next to our state’s abbreviation.
August 2013 Poetry Feature
August 16, 2013
Poetry
It’s our pleasure to bring you new poems by four poets whose work will also appear in an upcoming print issue of The Common.
Review: River Inside the River
July 29, 2013
Reviews
Book by GREGORY ORR
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Gregory Orr is a meditative poet. In his new book, River Inside the River, Orr again turns his inner eye to the power of words to reveal the essence of a thing, a movement, an emotion. He writes:
River inside the river.
World within the world.All we have is words
To reveal the rose
That the rose obscures.
River Inside the River is a sequel to and extension of his 2005 collection Concerning the Book That is the Body of the Beloved. This is especially true in the third section, which bears the book’s title.
July 2013 Poetry Feature
July 23, 2013
Poetry
Our July poetry feature celebrates the distinguished career of The Common contributor John Matthias with a selection of several of his poems from the last five decades. This year Shearsman Books completes the publication of the collected poems of John Matthias in three volumes: Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 2 (1995-2011), Collected Longer Poems, and Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 1 (1961-1994).
June 2013 Poetry Feature
June 20, 2013
Poetry
This June, we’re showcasing poems by five new contributors to the print journal!
Everything is Filled with You
May 24, 2013
Poetry, Translation
Translated by DON SHARE
Everything is filled with you,
and everything is filled with me:
the towns are full,
just as the cemeteries are full
of you, all the houses
are full of me, all the bodies.
Morgualos
May 24, 2013
Poetry, Translation
Translated by DON SHARE
Morgualos love chimneys, white cotton shirts, the agapanthus, a tree called the seven-skin, the scent of fresh cilantro as it falls into soup, the sound of church bells, and days without clouds.
An Excerpt from “Carp Ascending a Waterfall”
May 24, 2013
Poetry
by DON SHARE
Grudging and begrudging me snow
here where the broken water runs
(Grand Theft Auto… Shark Attack Pictures)
and not in exile I reflect
that nobody in Ovid turns into
their mother or father
May 2013 Poetry Feature
May 24, 2013
Poetry, Translation
Don Share published three poems, including “Wishbone,” the title poem of his newest collection, in the first issue of The Common. He’s been on a roll ever since, publishing five books as author, translator, or editor in the last year and a half. Here are a few selections from and links to those volumes:
