Monday, March 13, 2006
Recommendation: Hoa & Dale at the Poetry Project March 15th
March 15, 2006
St. Mark's Church
131 East 10th Street (@ Second Avenue)
$8/$7 students + seniors/$5 members
www.poetryproject.com | info@poetryproject.com
212.674.0910
If you can get to the Poetry Project on Wednesday night you should go to see poets Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith read.
Among other things, Hoa and Dale are the editors of the hand-painted and carefully edited magazine Skanky Possum (Austin, TX). Certain editions of the beautiful magazine are already collector's items. However, it's their poems and poetry, which I love most. Here are some of my thoughts on their distinct and engaging work.
ON HOA NGUYEN:
Hoa Nguyen uses pulverized phrases as if they were not pulverized but their own new wholes.
You have your ancient see through
ways Stars sustain their axis
Orion listing like gallows
for my creepy life the pieces
of our ascending selves
ON DALE SMITH:
In 2005 Smith published a lovely 5x5 inch book called Notes No Answer from Habenich Press. Here is the opening poem of Smith's engaging collection:
Should I assist or
desist, resist
or insist,
persist or exist
in status
quo stasis?
Here is a good interview with Smith from HERE COMES EVERYBODY: Writers on Writing.
--Tom Devaney
