Welcome to the October Issue, Volume 28, Issue 4 of Cider Press Review.
In this issue of Cider Press Review, a shift in the wind sings of the fluid constancy of change, of what is coming, of what is past, and the ways life and death swirl together. In “Love Poem w/ Human Remains,” Ella Flores considers what we leave in our wake: “jotted with the oldest date/ we spotted at the cemetery/ —no first name, only wife/ sister friend because, you/ said, headstones aren’t left/ or the dead—but I worry/ about nail clippings tucked/.” While Kay Zhang illustrates the subtle, but inescapable, shift from known to unknown in “Things That Fall from the Sky,” with “the natural world, the trees’ understanding of surface// area organization, shape, and what is a cartoon/ if not a sky-sent branch on what you thought was// Saturday, but is in fact when all the days turn like leaves,/ tumbling like anvils, in a territory you don’t recognize.” And in his poem, “The Ghost Calls,” Matthew Griffiths marks the liminality blurring what was and what is: “The call always/ in the orbit of that hour// as a breath before speech,/ a cleared throat.// Count the minutes.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Volume 28, Issue 4 includes poems by Marion Brown, Jennifer Campbell, Joseph Chelius, Brodie DeHart, Amelia Díaz Ettinger, Kasha Martin Gauthier, Dejah Griffin, Paul Ilechko, Laurie Kuntz, Stefanie Leigh, Kate Maxwell, Robbi Nester, Derek N. Otsuji, Christy Prahl, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, Julia Ross, and L.N. Valenzuela.
Enjoy!
Abigail Card, Managing Editor
