The dermatologist injects the local anesthetic
into my upper arm. When she begins to carve,
In this episode of The Common’s Contributors in Conversation podcast, Issue 07 contributors Zeina Hashem Beck and Jaydn DeWald read and discuss their poems “Your Parents’ House” and “Dissolution (Or, Landscape With Martyr).”
Celebrate Poetry Month with 9 new poems by our contributors!
As we begin 2015, our recommenders are heading into the wilderness. These books range widely through time and space, each embracing its own unique heart of contradiction—exile and home; passion and failure; reason and chaos; doubt and confidence. Heavy with both fictional biography and memoir, we bring you familiar faces from the dark woods of alienation and obsession. Dive into the new year with these five maps by which to recognize yourself and find a path through the forest.
Recommended:
The Same Roads Back by Frank Dullaghan, The Season of Migration by Nellie Hermann, Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin, Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
Your parents grow older, perhaps
old. The same conversations,
yellow like the walls,
New poems from our print contributors in the U.S. and abroad.
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