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.
“The Symmetry of Fish” is caught between two cultures from a poet born in
South Korea and raised in America. Su Cho discusses how her name was
anglicised (...
Great stuff, thanks for posting this Matthew,
ReplyDeletelooks like one for the Christmas list