Thanks Rachel was very interested in bicycle from grave to grave was that
for the officiant not the mourners -how many friends does one bury at a time
My grandad used to have a very usefull 'iron spear' a lethal thing to drop
on feet -disappeared over the years not seen another good for getting at
tree roots
Enjoyed form of the poem
Cheers P old P
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Subject: "What the Gravedigger Needs"
If you're so inclined, one of my poems from the new issue of New American
Writing is at Poetry Daily today, and afterwards for a year in the archives:
http://www.poems.com/
How to get a copy (from the editors, Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover):
New American Writing 24 (2006) has just been published and can be ordered
directly from New American Writing, 369 Molino Avenue, Mill Valley, CA
94941, for $13 ($2 off the cover price).
You can save $3 an issue, a total savings of $9, by ordering a subscription
for three annual issues. To do so, send a check for $36 to the above
address.
To use a credit a card, order single copies or subscriptions online through
the NAW website, www.newamericanwriting.com.
The 220 page issue contains a generous Nathaniel Mackey feature including
"The Atmosphere is Alive," an interview with the poet by Sarah Rosenthal and
a representative selection of his poetry and prose.
Also featured are translations of the poetry of Pura Lopez-Colome (Jason
Stumpf), Pablo Neruda (Clayton Eshleman), Aase Berg (Johannes Gorranson),
Vladimir Holan Josef Horacek & Lara Glenum), Yang Jian (Wang Ping and Alex
Lemon), Yao Feng (Christopher Kelen), Eugenio Montejo (Kirk Nesset), and
eight poems of Nguyen Trai, 1380-1442, one of Vietnam's greatest poets
(Nguyen Do & Paul Hoover).
As always, poetry in electrifying English: Pierre Joris, Rosmarie Waldrop,
Clayton Eshleman, Mac Wellman, Karen Garthe, Martine Bellen, Rusty Morrison,
Joanna Klink, Edward Smallfield, Joseph Lease, Brian Teare, Diane Newman,
G.C. Waldrep, John Olson, Campbell McGrath, Devin Johnston, Lisa Isaacson,
Ethan Paquin, Douglas Messerli, Caroline Knox, Rachel Loden, Terence Winch,
Todd Swift, Patrick Pritchett, Craig Watson, Stephen Vincent, Fred Marchant,
Valerie Coulton, Maged Zaher, Carol Ciavonne, Sandra Park, Curtis Bonney,
George Kalamaras, Daneen Wardrop, Katie Degentesh, Michael Magee, Sharon
Mesmer, Susan Maxwell, Barbara Jane Reyes, Susen James, Noelle Kocot, Chad
Faries, Nathan Hauke, John Sakkis, Daniel Tiffany, Max Winter, James Meetze,
Lori Shine, and Andrew Early.
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