"An Old Skulldugger’s Testament"

A poem by Asa Boxer.

Holiday Recommendation, Ctd

"A delight to read and read again. Asa Boxer is a true master of language—and he knows it. This collection [Skullduggery] is at once belly-shakingly funny, piercingly insightful, ironic, and melodically composed. If poetry was ever 'meant' to be some way, this is it." —Jury citation for the 2011 QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.

They're in!

Our Spring poetry titles: The Id Kid by Linda Besner and Skullduggery by Asa Boxer.

Saturday Poem

Night Shift

The owl skirrs for mouse
and in his gut, he turns her
inside-out. The bat weaves

through the criss-cross trees,
wings upon her sonar pings
to trap the bug and feel him sing.

Owl, wise anatomist, studies
the tissues, then spits the gist:
the shag and bone of what exists.

And bat, dread acrobat, flips
the forest upside-down, and all
the creatures underground,

the shrew, the hedgehog and the mole
fall out like rattled soldiers
from their tunnelled holes.

From Skullduggery, by Asa Boxer, which will be launched April 17.

How Much?

Signal poet Asa Boxer -- whose second book of poems, Skullduggery, is out next month -- was in the news today about the gobsmackingly lucrative poetry prize he's just co-founded.

You can ask him about it on Friday, April 29, 2011 at 6pm when Asa will appear, along with five other poets, at a reading I'm hosting: Blue Met's "Poets at Night: Changing Landscapes, Eclectic Voices."