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Karen Volkman
Karen Volkman
Poet Karen Volkman was the recipient of the James Laughlin Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize...
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Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]

 
by Karen Volkman

Laughing below, the unimagined room
in unimagined mouths, a turning mood
speaking itself the way a fulling should
overspilling into something's dome,

some moment's edging over into bloom.
What is a happening but conscious cloud
seeking its edge in a wound or word
pellucidity describing term

as boundary, body, violated bourne
no sounding center, circumscription turn.
Mother of mirrors, angel of the acts,

do all the sighing breathing clicking wilds
summon the same blue breadth the sense subtracts,
the star suborning in its ruptured fields.





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May 13, 2008
The Academy Offices
From the Academy Audio Archive



From Nomina by Karen Volkman. Copyright © 2008 by Karen Volkman. Reprinted by permission of B.O.A. Editions. All rights reserved.
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