Gillian Conoley’s seventh collection of poetry, Peace, is forthcoming with Omnidawn this spring. Her translations of Henri Michaux will appear in City Lights Pocket Poets Series sometime this year. She teaches at Sonoma State University, where she edits Volt.
Poetry
Spring 2014
I Am Writing an Article (Johnny Cash)
I am writing an article for the Sunday magazine. I am 23, I have my face made up, feeling smoke where the tongue slides, smoke while carrying around a camera […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1992
Susan Howe and Sam Cornish: Two Poetries, Two Histories
1935: A Memoir by Sam Cornish. Boston: Ploughshares Books, 1990. 181 pages. $19.95; $9.95, paper. Singularities by Susan Howe. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press / The University Press of New […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
Bedrock
Ball without chain, revolving old bone, the moon spills its pale enchantment on the plain. Sidewalks lead us, each star the same gauntlet thrown down time and again, telling us […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
Beauty Queen
When the beauty queen returns home, dry grass, old colorof the fences, fierce sky enchant heruntil in memory, in a white bathing cap, she is making a spectacular diveinto the […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
The Birth of a Nation
By 1915 gravity had begun to affect light, and mass, to distort space so that reaching the theaterwas a struggle: couples faded between lamppostsuntil each came to a ticket booth […]
Spring 2014
Plath and Sexton
there should have been a third
my friends and I
to not feel so incomprehensible
we were carrying your dead books