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Timmy Straw
I have two things sang the bird from the pin oak.
Two things have I—the answer back.
The world is in its message today.
The world is in its keys. The sun
in it flashes like a flag in pavilion,
like a frog’s throat flashing in the sun.
And there are things that must be said, I know,
awful and simple as children yelling out
our mother is dead.
A fact will baptize a brain for a while
but what makes the baptism stay—
I have two things, sings the bird in the pin oak
two things have I, the bird in the eaves.
A tuning met and gone like the look
the two hostages gave
when they passed
at the neutral middle of the bridge.
from the journal THE YALE REVIEW
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Poet Lauren Camp talks about the liberation she finds in revising her work. "Revision, the way I choose to do it, rarely hews close to the existing text. When I return to the work after some time has passed, I’ve filled my brain with other books, music, storylines, news bits. The season has changed, and my mood. I want to push the work in some new direction. I stretch and tighten the work, reading it aloud again. Sometimes, when I look back at the many drafts I’ve done, I’m amazed at how far I’ve veered from the course I initially set."

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"There are other more comprehensive volumes of Char’s work in translation....But this one offers a wonderful bookness. There’s an integrity to the object, the physical form with the page as its basic unit, the short poems set in that space, nothing to distract me as I turn the page, or don’t. It fits in the hand, rests on a shelf, travels in a pack."
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