Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Hank Lazer Poetry Links

Hank Lazer has published sixteen books of poetry, most recently Portions (Lavender Ink, 2009), The New Spirit (Singing Horse, 2005), and Elegies & Vacations (Salt, 2004). He is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Alabama, where he directs Creative Campus and edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press.  In late 2011, N18 (complete), the eighteenth notebook in Lazer’s The Notebooks (of Being & Time), will be published by Singing Horse Press.


Works by Hank Lazer















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Interview


Poem

HUMID by Hank Lazer, from Portions

humid blanket thick
air wrap this
body awkward walking

as in dream
as with tongue
thickly coated &

speech a dream
babble wanting to
but not able

to say proper
words of blessing
superfluous i suppose

to bless what
is much more
than too specific

us begin baruch
& soon hit
scripted mystic unpronounceables

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