Michelle Boisseau
Michelle Boisseau is a Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her books of poetry include: No Private Life (Vanderbilt, 1990), Understory (Northeastern University, 1996), Trembling Air (Arkansas, 2003), A Sunday in God-Years (Arkansas, 2009) and the forthcoming Among the Gorgons. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Yale Review and Ploughshares. In 2010 she received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and in 2015 was awarded the Tampa Prize.
Reading List
Gigantic Day
We are bemoaning how the rising deluxe condos will bully the river when jittering toward us come irises rocked in a beaming woman’s arms. Then all along Millbank they come hugging froths and sprays from the selloff, blue dithers and …
Dragon
After Montale’s “The Eel” Dragon, siren, prima prima donna, she flickers in the cold crushing depths of the seafloor, on an earth without water or land, just acid seas that slosh above writhing rocks, in trenches and slits deep as …
Weak Force
What I mean is I’m digging in the garden or just walking dully along, going on with my boggy life, when it snaps me up like a mouse, a snack for the hawk of grief and like a car antennae …
Archipelagos of Snow
The little house climbs from winter afraid of its own weakness. The door, the cedar shakes. The knot of leaves in the porch corner drowses in the sunlight. The frost sizzles and rises. It’s hard to find a word, a …