by
Michael Teig
New Poets of America
Series
Michael Teig’s Big Back Yard was awarded the inaugural
A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, chosen by award-winning poet and
fiction writer Stephen Dobyns. Teig’s poems display his
ability to create surprising metaphors and images. These are integrated
seamlessly into startlingly original poems, which, though often
difficult, aren’t inaccessible. “With Teig I could
never calculate the poem’s direction,” Dobyns writes
in his Foreword. “Yet where the poem wound up . . . felt
exactly right, while the ride itself, the reading experience,
gave great pleasure.”
Since
We've Hardly Met, All
This
Waving Is A Poor Goodbye
When
the neighbor girl emerged
calling,
Blackberry, Blackberry,
it
was late enough the traffic lights
were
just repeating themselves.
Someone
left the crickets on.
The
field powdered in cobweb.
I thought
she was growing beautiful out there
and
beyond hope. Already we are dancing
in
the Versailles Ballroom at the Holiday Inn.
I promise
if we don't need food,
we
don't have to get dressed all day.
I can
make a small boat with my hands.
©BOA
Editions, Ltd 2003
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 1-929918-37-2
Price: $13.95
Publishing Date: March 2003
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