Jerry Harp‘s books include Creature (a volume of poems) and “For Us, What Music?”: The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice (University of Iowa Press). He teaches at Lewis & Clark College.
Poetry
Winter 2007
His Garden Mechanical
The machine shines in the grass, the grass Shines in the windows, everything reflects. The pulleys and cogwheels grind like There's something more to say. I myself Have nothing more […]
Poetry
Winter 2005
His Intimations of Rust
My breath becomes these fluttered pages. I thought to give my fingers wings Under this slender fog of a spring dawn Where an alloyed self stands cast like a shade […]
Summer 2013
Encounter
It was a hotel lobby. It was
his face, dense with lines like carved stone,
emerging from the other faces.
Fall 2009
On D. A. Powell’s Chronic
Graywolf Press, 2009, 64 pages According to recent estimates, life arose on our planet some 3.8 billion years ago. This life has evolved through the byways and rough roads of […]