Able Muse, Summer 2017 (No. 23 - print edition): a review of poetry, prose & art

by Alexander Pepple (Editor), Emily Grosholz (Contribution by)

Overview

This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Summer 2017 issue, Number 23. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of the work presented all these years in the online edition, and, the Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse Press, 2010).

" [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry." - Dana Gioia.
"Able Muse is refreshing to read for its selection of poetry that adheres to form . . . a quality magazine offering the reader informed and unexpected views on life." - NewPages.

CONTENTS:

EDITORIAL - Alexander Pepple.

FEATURED ART - Zebra and zebra-related theme.

FEATURED POET - Emily Grosholz;
(Interviewed by Mark Jarman).

FICTION - Tom Larsen, Israel A. Bonilla, Bruce Johnson.

MEMOIRS - David Larsen.

ESSAYS - Laura DiCarlo Short.

BOOK REVIEWS - Brooke Clark.

POETRY - Frederick Wilbur, Roy Bentley, Aaron Poochigian, Catharine Savage Brosman, Terese Coe, William Conelly, Horace, Ryan Wilson, Francesco Petrarca, Lee Harlin Bahan, Tatiana Forero Puerta.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781773490069
Publisher:	Able Muse Press
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Series:	Able Muse, Print Edition , #23
Edition description:	23rd Summer 2017 Issue ed.
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.29(d)

Table of Contents

Alexander Pepple

Editorial / v

ESSAYS

Laura DiCarlo Short

Breaking Expectations: The Prosodic Techniques of T. S. Eliot’s

Approximated Verse / 17

MEMOIRS

David Larsen

Yellow Footprints / 46

FICTION

Tom Larsen

Ghost Story / 59

Israel A. Bonilla

The Day Before / 80

Bruce Johnson

Sayings / 87

BOOK REVIEWS

Brooke Clark

Two Books: / 90

X.J. Kennedy, That Swing: Poems, 2008–2016

Alexandra Oliver, Let the Empire Down

FEATURED POET

Emily Grosholz

Interviewed by Mark Jarman / 63

POEMS

from June / 73

from August / 74

Days of 1983 / 75

Song of the (Ancient)

Physics Major / 77

“Rondine al nido” / 78

At the Edge of the Woods / 79

FEATURED ARTIST

A Zebra Theme

A Photographic Exhibit

From Artists Worldwide / 30

ARTWORK

Watering / 31

With the Giraffes / 32

With the Elephants / 33

With the Rhinoceros / 34

With the Birds / 35

With the Lion / 36

R & R / 37

Zebra Butterfly / 38

Sand Zebra / 39

Zonkey / 40

Zebra Swab / 41

Zebra-Tailed / 42

Zebra Nuzzle / 43

Ear Here / 44

Tail End / 45

POETRY

William Conelly

The Onset / 1

Horace (translated by Ryan Wilson)

Horace ii.10 / 3

Frederick Wilbur

The Colossal Ruin / 5

Lay of the Land / 6

Equinox / 7

Catharine Savage Brosman

Gloves / 8

Dickens at Niagara Falls / 9

Aaron Poochigian

The Eviction / 12

Obituary / 14

Post Mortem / 15

Francesco Petrarca

(translated by Lee Harlin Bahan)

287: Give my regards to / 28

291: Zappa / 29

Terese Coe

Idomeni / 83

Tatiana Forero Puerta

Christening / 84

Roy Bentley

1975 / 86

T R A N S L A T I O N N O T E S / 101

C O N T R I B U T O R N O T E S / 109

I N D E X / 117

Editorial Reviews

" [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry." - Dana Gioia.

"Able Muse is refreshing to read for its selection of poetry that adheres to form . . . a quality magazine offering the reader informed and unexpected views on life." - NewPages.

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