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\nHil stopped by for dinner last night so she and Matthew could talk to us about possible summer plans. Bouncing around the table: A return to Nicaragua, but pick a different city and a different activity. Matt won\u00c3\u00adt again sit for four hours a day of Spanish lessons. Guatemala, but it is safe? Colombia, but would they return home alive?<\/p>\n
Knocked from the list: Costa Rica and Mexico – too ordinary, too safe. South America? Who knows anything about those countries? If they go somewhere, everyone, even Matthew agrees that they should have structure, as in community service, etc. . Preferred by the \u00c3\u00abrents and maybe even the deal breaker, known contacts in the area.<\/p>\n
Anyone out there with ideas? <\/p>\n
From the book The Unsubscriber by Bill Knott:<\/p>\n
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Fingerprints look like ripples
\nbecause time keeps dropping
\nanother stone into our palm.<\/p>\n
From the review of The Unsubscriber in Poetry, the magazine Adam and Tricia gave me for my last birthday.<\/p>\n
The Unsubscriber is Knott\u00c3\u00ads first new collection in a decade, and it is something of an event, in part because Farrar, Straus and Giroux – home to Noble Prize-winning Derek Walcott and Pulitzer-winning, John Ashbery, as well as many distinguished others – is publishing it. And a good thing, too, because, as it turns out, Knott is an underrated, or at least an under-read, poet. To be sure, he is also plenty capable of bad – not to mention offensively grotesque – poetry, of a sort that is more unsettling than the average tediously bad poem. But his talent is a kind of live wire: no one, least of all the poet himself, seems to be able to get a consistently steadying hand on it, and if the result is sometimes appalling, it can also make for a kind of terrifying beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hil stopped by for dinner last night so she and Matthew could talk to us about possible summer plans. Bouncing around the table: A return to Nicaragua, but pick a different city and a different activity. Matt won\u00c3\u00adt again sit … Continue reading