September 26th, 2009 / 4:17 pm
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The ghostly cu-cu


Kristin Naca’s first poetry collection Bird Eating Bird, winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU prize as chosen by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, is now available!

Here is a sample, from part of a part of a poem called “House,” which appears in Octopus 11:

“Suppose there is a bubble that flutters inside you. Or suppose it builds in the plastic air. Or the plastic that is liquid and luminous yet air. Or suppose in reverse the air plastic. And in its sloshing to-and-fro forms teacups of air unsettling its layers. In the teacups is air air not plastic. And teacups are cool and porcelain as anything that’s cool and porcelain.”

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12 Comments

  1. September 26th, 2009 / 10:17 pm darby—

      house is pretty great. thanks for posting that.

  2. September 26th, 2009 / 10:17 pm darby—

      house is pretty great. thanks for posting that.

  3. September 26th, 2009 / 6:17 pm darby—

      house is pretty great. thanks for posting that.

  4. September 27th, 2009 / 5:21 am reynard seifert—
  5. September 27th, 2009 / 5:21 am reynard seifert—
  6. September 27th, 2009 / 1:21 am reynard seifert—
  7. September 27th, 2009 / 4:00 pm Christopher Higgs—

      I sat next to Timothy Hutton at the screening of Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo ’66 at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Gallo was in this huge fur coat that made him look like Max Julien in The Mack, and he spent the majority of his introduction talking shit about Abel Ferrara for some reason. I don’t remember what Timothy Hutton was wearing.

  8. September 27th, 2009 / 4:00 pm Christopher Higgs—

      I sat next to Timothy Hutton at the screening of Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo ’66 at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Gallo was in this huge fur coat that made him look like Max Julien in The Mack, and he spent the majority of his introduction talking shit about Abel Ferrara for some reason. I don’t remember what Timothy Hutton was wearing.

  9. September 27th, 2009 / 12:00 pm Christopher Higgs—

      I sat next to Timothy Hutton at the screening of Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo ’66 at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Gallo was in this huge fur coat that made him look like Max Julien in The Mack, and he spent the majority of his introduction talking shit about Abel Ferrara for some reason. I don’t remember what Timothy Hutton was wearing.

  10. September 27th, 2009 / 5:33 pm davidpeak—

      that makes me sad. i love ferrara.

  11. September 27th, 2009 / 5:33 pm davidpeak—

      that makes me sad. i love ferrara.

  12. September 27th, 2009 / 1:33 pm davidpeak—

      that makes me sad. i love ferrara.