Not only is today the day before Thanksgiving (and two days before Black Friday, the day shoppers are most likely to get trampled to death at Wal-Mart), but it's also the day I first read poems by Suzanne Buffam. Mark it on your calendar! Or hit the interwebs and go read some of her poems yourself. For your reading pleasure are "Ruined Interior" from the November/December 2008 issue of the Boston Review, "Trans Neptunian Object" from issue 8 of A Public Space, and "Please Take Back the Sparrows" which appeared on Verse Daily in 2006.
There are probably more online, but I don't have time to live your life for you. If you want to read more, buy her book Past Imperfect, which was published in 2005 by House of Anansi Press. And then, in 2010 (not that far away!), buy The Irrationalist, which will be published by Canarium Press. I will be first in line. Okay, probably there will be no line. But I'm looking forward to getting both of Buffram's books, even if I am kind of jealous and a little baffled that a poet has such nice countertops (this is not a euphemism. Look at the picture!).
Thank you to the lovely and talented Nami Mun for pointing me in Suzanne Buffam's direction today via Facebook.
1 comment:
Hey, thanks for the kind words on my poems. And my countertops. Alas, in the interests of full disclosure, I must confess they're not mine. They're my parents'. And they're so gorgeous we can't actually put anything on them. We just order in and eat on the floor. (And thanks to Nami for putting us in touch). Happy Thanksgiving.
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