Evening Walk as the School Year Starts

When was the last lobotomy, I wonder?
Too late for Carl at least, whom it's all but hopeless
to think of as a whipsaw of hateful passion

that would if it could have torn up his mother and father,
mild as they are; but that's how old villagers say
Carl acted before he was cut. Their smiles are rueful.
They shake their heads,
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—Sydney Lea, from Ghost Pain

Ryan Van Meter's If You Knew Then What I Know Now is reviewed in Rain Taxi.

Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City is reviewed in The Kenyon Review and The Short Review.

Lydia Davis' The Cows is reviewed in Make Magazine.

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03-12-2012
Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006

Hamline University St. Paul, MN
7:00 pm


Kelly Krebs, Asst. Dean for Graduate Programs
kkrebs@hamline.edu
http://www.hamline.edu/cla/bfa/visiting-writers.html

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