Poetry. / And hold it.\' With a bold clarity; the tone of these Poems is characterized by a precision of detail and cadenced rhythms as they move between meditative explorations and social satire in works such as Nothing Again Is Happening
Partly Mozart
Mostly Turkey Club; and Everyone Was a Real One but Gertrude: Alice and I sat in the shadows / of the salon drinking tea / and talking hats with Fernande / while from the hive that Gertrude / made with Ernest and Pablo and / a heap of Persian rugs.. / Now show me what the damned creature looks like.
I hear they call you / the White Devil of the Yellowstone.
In Western Primitive; frontier photographer Ben Wittick poses Geronimo
Chief Strange Horse; and Calamity Jane in his studio: \'Calamity;\' he says; \'I don\'t know what Wild Bill / sees in you.
In poetry and prose
Ann Slayton takes on wide-ranging subjects; sometimes imagining herself into an array of voices--rarely does she write in first-person--among them; the historical Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
We Have from the First Been Singers
Hester Prynne\'s young daughter Pearl
The Spell; even Henry Moore\'s great sculpture
Reclining Figures at Lincoln Center.
Translated by Andrea Lingenfelter.
Literary Nonfiction.
Poetry
