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Four Poems by Brian Turner
The Immortals Bell-shaped and translucent, jellyfish begin their ascent from the ocean floor. They’ve completed a novel process in the animal kingdom: transdifferentiation. It’s a reversal of the biological cycle as we know it—undoing the narrative arc tracing birth to adulthood before the inevitable decline and death. The jellyfish upend everything we know about death in flora and fauna. At the cellular level, they grow younger when the time comes to die.
A Castoff Bumper Leads to a Literary ‘Autobiography’ of Plastic
BookShelf: A Castoff Bumper Leads to a Literary ‘Autobiography’ of Plastic “Plastic: An Autobiography” By Allison Cobb Nightboat Books, $17.95 Reviewed by Nano Riley The ubiquitous nature of plastic dawned on Allison Cobb after she found a plastic automobile bumper one day in her yard, detritus from a Honda Odyssey. Cobb, who spent 20 years writing for the Environmental Defense Fund, recalled how she retrieved it, placed it in her office and thought about it on and off for about a decade.
Books by New Mexico authors
NARCISSUS NOBODY By Gina Yates, Three Rooms Press, 262 pages, $16 Hope Townsend is a seeker who stays in one place, a highly empathetic woman who prefers dogs to people. And her bar for people is low. She’s an office manager for a psychic hotline and picks up spare shifts hanging out with the sick and elderly — jobs she gravitated to after high school and is still in as she approaches 40. Her love life is similar. She has a thing for married guys who function like overgrown skater boys.
Talking Earth: dan raphael with Reyes, Brezhnev and Cobb
Air date: Mon, 07/19/2021 - 10:00pm to 11:00pm Poetry show with local poets Carlos Reyes, Igor Brezhnev and Allison Cobb This episode of The Talking Earth features Portland writers Carlos Reyes, Igor Brezhnev and Allison Cobb, hosted by dan raphael, who will read one of his own poems and one by James Yeary. The show can be heard anytime after the broadcast as KBOO.fm. Longtime Portland resident Carlos Reyes is a poet, teacher, Volkswagen mechanic and world traveler.
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