John Kinsella's Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems will be published by WW Norton in Fall/Autumn 2003. It will be released in Australia by Freemantle Arts Centre Press. |
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| Yellow ribbons around town-trees in the dying centre of Mount Vernon, all trade moving out to strip malls, are the end of theory: the signifier corrupted, imperial markers of loss in conquest, or potential of spontaneous and simultaneous daffodils sparking along the road edge, bordering our place without fences, our place that’s owned by others who let us know with glances through the window, imprints in still snow-tender grass, loud smiles as the oil flows like Coke, like Seven-Up. |