Steve Scafidi
Steve Scafidi, Jr.’s poetry collections are For Love of Common Words (LSU, 2006), Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer (LSU, 2001), which won the Larry Levis Reading Prize, The Cabinet Maker's Window and To the Bramble and the Briar. His poem “The Egg Suckers” was the winner of Shenandoah’s 2005 Boatwright Prize. He is a cabinetmaker and lives with his family in Summit Point, West Virginia. "On First Looking into Golding's Ovid" first appeared in Shenandoah 51/1.
Reading List
On Looking into Golding’s Ovid
It’s still the same – he turns, she turns – the end of a candle burns, maybe, in the eye socket of a severed head. It’s still the same wedding guests who fill these straw canoes, who float down river …
from The Lincoln Poems
Steve Scafidi Jr. reading from The Lincoln Poems THE JUNEBUGS Hey boy come here — quick, so he dropped his rake and ran to the yard by the housewhere probably five hundred junebugs like a pile of emeralds …