Energy Corridor

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6385-1
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

Reihe: Pitt Poetry Series

Beautiful Night

Who wants to make somebody cry, to see a face loseits structure and collapse, in night under clouds lityellow by streetlamps and buildings, or in day underthe relentless gaze of fluorescent lights? Yesterdaywas Tuesday, and today is Wednesday. Underneathour feet there are new fuses that web in every direction, from church hall to soup kitchen. Consider the power of the Constitution, the lyric, the tilted script. Unity among the disparate masses. We could have been a nation of poets, but instead we’re a nation of clerks. Laid over our country, an impossible map to follow to figure out where the next problem will burst. Please forgive me while I let it out, while I break into a small fit of tears. I am not weak, I try. When I die, everybody in my world will die, everything will be destroyed. You, the same. The exterior of the building is a marvel of curved glass, colorful metals that provide support and race gloriously up the structure to veer off at the top in sharp angles. At night, spotlights mounted on it crosseach other, form structures of light against the sky.Tourists take pictures of it. Residents look at it strong against their skyline and feel swells of pride. But inside, offices, water coolers, the usual paraphernalia of suffering and work. Lights and webs, the skull’s illusion of a grin. A little bit of night music. A little bit of spin.

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Über Autor(innen)

Glenn Shaheen is the author of Predatory, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and runner-up for the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the author of Unchecked Savagery, a chapbook of flash fiction. His poetry has appeared in Subtropics, /nor, Barrelhouse, and Washington Square, among other publications.