"Every living situation has one"
Foust, Solie, Marchiò, Lippman, Maris
Graham Foust:
Karen Solie:
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Roberto Baronti Marchiò (tr. from Italian by Gabriele Poole):
Matthew Lippman:
Kathryn Maris:
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I can't read "If You Don't Want Your Kids to Have Sex Don't Finish the Basement" because it's already perfect as is. Love that fuckin' Solie poem. Her I gotta get to...
Fascinating poems. I'm reminded of Bachelard's Poetics of Space. https://www.azquotes.com/author/744-Gaston_Bachelard