I was intrigued to read Joshua Mehigan's work in the latest issue of Poetry magazine (you can read three pieces here), the outstanding American journal. His new poems startle me in they way they take on board the influence of Philip Larkin, that most English of poets, and successfully incorporate it into an American aesthetic.
I'm very much looking forward to his new collection, titled Accepting the Disaster, which will be coming out in 2013.
DISPLACED They called her aloof, impractical, clumsy, plain. It was, they
say, difficult for her not to fall in love.In spite, that is, of the first
coughs...
Great stuff, thanks for posting this Matthew,
ReplyDeletelooks like one for the Christmas list