Joseph Fasano appeared on KPPR radio’s Out of Our Minds, hosted by J.P. Dancing Bear. Fasano read several selections from his new book, Fugue for Other Hands, winner of the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award, discussed his writing, his process, and his views on poetry now.
The day you leave for a trip on which you’ll drive treacherous mountain roads alone for hours, I rehearse losing you, absurd gesture, useless practice for bearing the unbearable. The day seems autumnal, or perhaps a cold late August day when summer’s green’s gone...
April Canto 1. At 5 am there is no song in the black window. The stage before the performance and after. 2. I want to translate the cardinal again,...
Across the daybreak of downtown a tenpin of rock dove goes to rise west, floating midair like magnolia hovering in the waters of an artisan’s bowl; as effortless as...
Puget Sound Evening calms to a wren-song. All day, clouds build, quick rain— thunder beyond dark Oregon hills—last drops still rattling down through old cottonwoods. A thin fog covers...
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