Issue 9.1 is officially at the printer, and we’re as cranked up as four-year-olds on cherry Kool-Aid. There’s still time to order your subscription here! To whet your appetite for the issue (which is so much better than a powder composed of red dye, citric acid, and other natural and artificial flavors), we wanted to give you a quick taste. Here are excerpts from four forthcoming poems. Next week, look for sip-sized samples of prose from the issue.
Angela Ball, from “Remarks You May Have Prepared for the Dinner”
. . . Excuse me, does this by any chance contain
Potash or sundries? I’m allergic
To sundries, especially anything
The color of baby chicks.
Is this a premises? If so, we may have to leave. I think
I’m feeling queasy. . . .
Patrizia Cavalli, translated by Geoffrey Brock:
Love that’s not mine nor even yours
but a fenced field we entered once,
which you a little later left,
and which I, lazy, made my home. . . .
Gregory Lawless, from “Foreclosure”:
. . . You call me back to the car. The way a man loses his hands between ladder rungs. You with your guardrail beauty. Sloping gently out of view. With your dents and etchings. . . .
Medbh McGuckian, from “The Flower of the Moment of What Comes Easily”
. . . Even the daylight feels as mute
As the fourfold halo of the May moon
Or the thoughts we say are ours
When stars lose their nests,
Pearllike letters hidden down
A mineshaft. . . .
Absolutely hate magazines that cannot be bothered to offer samples of the work they publish — just yammers about what’s in it, not giving anyone a real clue whether they should care to submit or not.
After all, one can’t go running around buying subscriptions to the 90 kajillion mags out there, just to see if one’s work might fit their agenda. Is there some lack of common sense in this, or just belligerence?
Hi Richard,
For material that has been published in our pages—and commented upon by our staff and contributors—check out our blog:
https://www.cincinnatireview.com/category/soapbox-and-cr/
AND
https://www.cincinnatireview.com/category/monthly-feature/
Have a lovely day.