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Palm to Palm
Selected by Elaine Bleakney
Description

Palms in poems as high, green & tropical. Then not, absolutely not. A palm tree in a poem as a silent chorus member to more audible, altering cousins (Levis). A palm as dressing for a flashy drink (Powell). The big Florida palm in the mind (Mister Stevens). Then Dorothea Tanning, blowing kisses with no hands--up to palm trees? And some of these palm-poems talking or leaping from (Blake) the closer mysteries of human hands.
 
Poetry
Auguries of Innocence by William Blake
No Palms by Dorothea Tanning
Nomad Exquisite by Wallace Stevens
Spontaneous Me by Walt Whitman
Styx by Dana Levin
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You by Abdellatif Laâbi
The Letter by Mary Ruefle
The Widening Spell of the Leaves by Larry Levis
Voyages II by Hart Crane
[the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office] by D. A. Powell
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