06/30/2011
Chris Shannon

Valerio Magrelli’s “I’ve often imagined gazes”

It’s as if his poems happen twice.
First as the bullet that pierces the skin;
second as the tracer whose flare
ribbons the dark with carmine.

Read Valerio Magrelli’s “I’ve often imagined gazes” at Poetry International >>


BIO:

Christopher Shannon’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Mid-American Review, and 32 Poems. A winner of a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, he has published reviews in the Germanic Review, and is the editor of Cellpoems.
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'John Poch’s “The Tongue”', Eric Smith

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