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Atlas Poetica • Issue 13 • Page 7 Atlas Poetica • Issue 13 • Page 8 a Few Poems on a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Theme ATLAS POETICA A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka Number 13 Autumn, 2012 ATLAS POETICA A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka Number 13 Autumn, 2012 M. Kei, editor Alex von Vaupel, technical director Christina Nguyen, editorial assistant 2012 Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA KEIBOOKS P O Box 516 Perryville, Maryland, USA 21903 AtlasPoetica.org [email protected] Atlas Poetica A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka Number 13—Autumn 2012 Copyright © 2012 by Keibooks All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by reviewers and scholars who may quote brief passages. See our EDUCATIONAL USE NOTICE. Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka, a triannual print and e-journal, is dedicated to publishing and promoting fine poetry of place in modern English tanka (including variant forms). Atlas Poetica is interested in both traditional and innovative verse of high quality and in all serious attempts to assimilate the best of the Japanese waka/tanka/kyoka/gogyoshi genres into a continuously developing English short verse tradition. In addition to verse, Atlas Poetica publishes articles, essays, reviews, interviews, letters to the editor, etc., related to tanka poetry of place. Tanka in translation from around the world are welcome in the journal. Published by Keibooks Printed in the United States of America, 2011 ATPO 13: ISBN 978-0615690971 (Print) AtlasPoetica.org TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Mirror Doubled, Genie Nakano ...........34 Educational Use Notice .......................6 Anasazi, Jenny Ward Angyal ...............35 Tanka and the Human Myth, M. Kei .......7 Stripped, Marilyn Humbert .................36 From My Memory Book, Pravat Kumar Tanka in Sets and Sequences Padhy ............................................36 A Few Poems on a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, abuse music, Joy McCall .......................37 and Transgender Theme ...................9 Venice, Dawn Manning .......................37 Carrowkeel, Autumn Noelle Hall & darkness lies deep, Joy McCall & Lynda Claire Everett ...............................10 Monahan .......................................38 Tuesday in Kapulena Orchards, Mark Kaplon ..........................................19 Individual Tanka ......................................41 Queen of Earth, Queen of Sky, Leslie Ihde ..............................................20 Reviews The Foreign Land Where I Chase My From the Depths: collected tanka by M. L. Dream, Nu Quang .........................22 Grace, reviewed by Patricia Prime ......64 Cobweb Sail, Patricia Prime & Owen Words Flower: a responsive tanka collection Bullock .........................................23 by Amelia Fielden and Saeko Ogi, Knowth, Autumn Noelle Hall & Claire reviewed by Patricia Prime .................67 Everett ..........................................24 Ammonite, Claire Everett ....................26 Articles For the Poet King, Nu Quang ...............27 Tanka Structure : The ‘Jo’ or ‘Preface,’ Coins of Darkness and Light, Joy McCall M. Kei ..................................................70 & Sanford Goldstein ....................28 A Small Plaque, Gerry Jacobson .........29 Announcements ......................................77 Crests and Troughs, Tish Davis .............29 Persian Nights, Kath Abela Wilson ......30 Biographies ..............................................78 An Old Story, Chen-ou Liu .................31 Breakfast Together, Chen-ou Liu .........31 Sunflower Girl, Chen-ou Liu ...............32 Biopsy, Christina Nguyen ....................32 Drifting, Christina Nguyen .................33 Educational Use Notice Keibooks of Perryville, Maryland, USA, publisher of the journal, Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka, is dedicated to tanka education in schools and colleges, at every level. It is our intention and our policy to facilitate the use of Atlas Poetica and related materials to the maximum extent feasible by educators at every level of school and university studies. Educators, without individually seeking permission from the publisher, may use Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka’s online digital editions and print editions, as primary or ancillary teaching resources. Copyright law “Fair Use” guidelines and doctrine should be interpreted very liberally with respect to Atlas Poetica precisely on the basis of our explicitly stated intention herein. This statement may be cited as an effective permission to use Atlas Poetica as a text or resource for studies. Proper attribution of any excerpt to Atlas Poetica is required. This statement applies equally to digital resources and print copies of the journal. Individual copyrights of poets, authors, artists, etc., published in Atlas Poetica are their own property and are not meant to be compromised in any way by the journal’s liberal policy on “Fair Use.” Any educator seeking clarification of our policy for a particular use may email the Editor of Atlas Poetica, at [email protected]. We welcome innovative uses of our resources for tanka education. Atlas Poetica Keibooks P O Box 516 Perryville, MD 21903 <http://AtlasPoetica.org> Tanka and the Human Myth Atlas Poetica has a long tradition of find the ‘Other’ and make it ‘Us.’ It is no encouraging tanka poets to publish a wide longer the bones of strangers lying in the variety of subject matter and approaches. desecrated grave: it is our bones. Our Special Features, located on the After all the haunting images, suddenly website at AtlasPoetica.org, showcase many delight! Two girls in love pedaling a French different sorts of tanka and bring a focus bicycle, or lorikeets flickering past like a to many different communities. Currently, Mardi Gras of the air. Who cannot smile at the website is playing host to Chiaroscuro : the little girl twirling and twirling to make 25 Tanka on a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and her skirt fly? We all end in the grave, but Tr a n s g e n d e r T h e m e, edited by Janick before we do, there are little girls in pink Belleau. Poets have written about tutus. These are the moments, both grand themselves, their families, and friends. and small, that tanka is so effective at Each poem is a snapshot that shows us capturing. something outside the usual bounds of As usual, we have reviews, articles, and tanka, and yet, what we discover is not announcements. My own contribution is difference, but community. We are all an article about tanka structure. Seemingly human and tanka is a fit instrument to simple, when subjected to analysis, tanka express that common humanity. show complex structures to organize their Our sequences, collaborative tanka, five poetic phrases. Not simply a five line and tanka prose reach from Neolithic free verse, tanka have an internal Ireland to medieval Vietnam to memories organization that firmly holds the pieces of modern childhood. Mythology is a together in a taut, yet supple, framework. common theme, with poets finding inspiration, lessons, secrets, and terror, in ~K~ the ancient stories. The bones of Jewish children become a plaque in a Paris street; M. Kei in New Mexico, a woman finds oblivion Editor, Atlas Poetica under the fiery skies. No longer are monsters hidden in the mists; they enter Terkezi Oasis, Chad. A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this our very veins and run openly, but Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in invisibly, through the streets of our cities. the country of Chad. Poet King, courtesan, leprechaun, child Cover Image courtesy of Visible Earth, located molester, monster. Images bright and dark, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. <http:// full of light and shadow, stretch across the visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=2876> years, the centuries, the millennia. This is what tanka poetry of place does best: to Atlas Poetica • Issue 13 • Page 7 Atlas Poetica • Issue 13 • Page 8 A Few Poems on a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Theme Autumn Noelle Hall Margaret Chula Forever 21 standing side by side my daughter spends her gift card in front of the mirror on the boys’ side my transgender friend faded denim mirrored compares the shape in faraway blue eyes of her lips to mine ~United States of America ~United States of America LeRoy Gorman Sheila Sondik which path to pick when Aunt Rose in cherry blossoms broke up with her two women in love companion tell me of over thirty years where to go no words could name the loss ~United States of America ~United States of America Elizabeth Moura M. Kei sudden downpour nail shingle boards our first night out to that heart of yours, pressed together proof it against I am grateful the winter cold, waiting, the umbrella is too small yes waiting, for your sailor ~United States of America ~United States of America Atlas Poetica • Issue 13 • Page 9 Carrowkeel Claire Everett & Autumn Noelle Hall Cairn A, Tully Mountain when? when the rocks were still speckled with the Bricklieves with quartz and the plains of Sligo like the wren’s clutch of eggs deep in his cleats in her nest at dawn the ice giant, seaward bound, stops to catch his breath sentry set apart from the watch he rests his right hand . this grass-mantled cairn four limestone plateaus webbed belongs as much to Kesh with crag and valley, as it does to Carrowkeel thumb, Tully Mountain, third finger Carrowkeel two bosses
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