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Tagged Clare Martin, MadHat Magazine, R Is the Artichoke of Rose
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Tagged Blueshift Road, R Is the Artichoke of Rose, The Rusty Toque
Camille Martin
Sugar Beach is my second chap from rob mclennan’s Above/Ground Press (the first was 2011’s If Leaf, Then Arpeggio). This one’s a two-fer — it contains minimalist poems from my manuscript R Is the Artichoke of Rose as well as material from the cosmic peregrinations of Blueshift Road, a work in progress.
Endless Regression of Heavens
Glaciers dribble foreign rocks
as dawn releases chicory blue.
Its fickle hues waltz round equator,
spool, top, dizzy moon, gainlyas the patter of millipedes ruffling
toward a country with no flag
but fields of chicory blue. Horizon,
chromatic with moments. Whatof the next and the next, plunging
into myth evolving in the deeps?
Haunting the deeps while manning
the crow’s nest? With each finiteduration we arrive closer by half
to a famished constellation,
blinking beast perpetually devouring
a platter of chicory blue.
The issue also features work by
K. A. McGowan
Gregory Kiewiet
Patrick Kelling
James Grabill
Jamey Gallagher
Alice B. Fogel
Thanks to editors Matt VanderMeulen and Kristin Abraham!
Camille Martin
There’s a plethora of stunning poetic and visual work in this issue. Check out the table of contents. Thanks to Mark Young, publisher of Otoliths!
What is the working title of the book?
R Is the Artichoke of Rose
Where did the idea come from for the book?
From a collage of mine, R Is:
What genre does your book fall under?
Poetry. Sub-genre: minimalist.
What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
Elmo and India.Arie in a musical about the letter R.
What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
R is the artichoke of rose.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
I’ve been writing short-short poems for many years, publishing them in such journals as Fell Swoop, Peter O’Toole, Quill Puddle, and Unarmed. Eventually the little critters coalesced into something greater than the sum of their parts.
Who or what inspired you to write this book?
Minimalist poetry by other poets, from the epigrams of Martial to the pithy gems of Aram Saroyan.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Illegal pet activity, my pugilist grandmother, black bleach.
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
R Is the Artichoke of Rose seeks publisher seeking R Is the Artichoke of Rose.
