Pulled from the sea the severed head of a horse eye sockets runneling with eels caught by a fisherman who stuffs them in a sack and walks down the beach over sand the color of fog the color of sea disappearing into where the world used to be
Ray Gonzalez delves into the publishing history of Bob Dylan's poetry. "I own eight copies of Tarantula, Bob Dylan’s first book. Published by MacMillan in 1971, the collection of bizarre, surreal prose poems does not get much attention by Dylan fanatics today. When it came out, there was a brief media buzz because no rock star, at the time, wrote in such a wild style."
Poetry Daily stands with the Black community. We oppose racism, oppression, and police brutality. We will continue to amplify diverse voices in the poetry world. Black Lives Matter.
"My home mountain range, the Colorado Sangre de Cristo, is an 80-mile fault-block uplift, with ten summits over 14,000 feet....Walking there for the last forty years has helped me learn that place is neither fixed nor purely spatial, but temporary and temporal, contingent and unstable, an intersection of forces I happen to encounter (and take part in) during my brief time on earth and briefer time as walker through a landscape. Here & now is a knot, and all its strands are moving."
