Lampblack
2016; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/thr.2016.0068
ISSN1939-9774
Autores ResumoLampblack Moira Egan (bio) for Cynthia Macdonald A hurricane knocked out our power once.Those weeks I read by oil lamp, wrote till late,and dreamed of Mary Wroth and Dickinson.The smoke curled up and left a smear of soot. (She’d told me that the poets who are blocked are those who could not play as children: maimed. Too well I know, you can’t turn back the clock; ergo, adulthood full of tricks and games: stiletto-skipping down Manhattan’s walks [no crack; no break no back]; encased in latex, that orchidaceous, rubbery bouquet; the glitter of the night street, glass in asphalt.) Tonight the sky is black and pepper-crisp.The moon has never seemed so spherical,blood-orange or rufous grapefruit, which the eclipsedissevers, slice by slice, methodical. [End Page 324] Moira Egan MOIRA EGAN is the author of six books of poems, including two bilingual collections in Italy. With her husband, Damiano Abeni, she has published volumes in translation by Ashbery, Ferlinghetti, Hecht, Simic, Strand, and others. “Lampblack” is from her recently completed manuscript, Synæsthesium. “Lampblack” is an elegy for a beloved professor, Cynthia Macdonald, who taught in the Writing Seminars for many years. Copyright © 2016 Moira Egan
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