Thơ Mỹ – một thời đáng nhớ (kỳ 23): Michael Lee Johnson
Khế Iêm
Khế Iêm
Khế Iêm HOOKERS ON ARCHER AVENUE Late evening, early morning, I search the night for whores, young and bloody with desires. The…
Khế Iêm I KNOW FROM MY BED Sometimes I feel like a sad sack – a worn out old man with clown facial…
Khế Iêm GIANTS she could not wake me as I dreamt of tall poets their shoulders out of reach
Khế Iêm
Khế Iêm THE BALLAD OF JESUS ORTIZ Jake’s family were vaqueros. They worked the cattle drives Down from Montana to market. They did…
Khế Iêm THE PRESENT The present that you gave me months ago is still unopened by our bed, sealed in its rich blue…
Khế Iêm THE APPLE ORCHARD You won’t remember it – the apple orchard We wandered through one April afternoon, Climbing the hill…
Khế Iêm “The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz” describes the life and death of my great-grandfather. Every name, place, and significant event in the poem…
Khế Iêm BEWARE OF THINGS IN DUPLICATE Beware of things in duplicate: a set of knives, the cufflinks in a drawer, the dice,…
Khế Iêm VILLANELLE ON THE OREGON COAST For Margaret Prentice Many a time I’ve dreamed of such a place Where darkened…
Khế Iêm SALVAGE Imagine you have built a house on sand, and all our houses yet are built on sand: and the evening…
Khế Iêm THE FATHER SAYS “Yes, I’ve nothing, so I have nothing to give. I’m so consumed by envy, greed and guilt, I…
Khế Iêm THE WITCH In Freud’s Vienna no one could believe The children they molested there could feel, Although from fairytales they did…
Khế Iêm PHOENIXES for Matt, later I thought that I was stronger than I am. Death after death after death undid me….
Khế Iêm Andrew Hudgins _____________ ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, WHO IS NOT DEAD One day I’ll lift the telephone and be told…
Khế Iêm R. S. Gwynn __________________________ APPROACHING A SIGNIFICANT BIRTHDAY, HE PERUSES THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY All human things are…
Khế Iêm Marilyn Hacker __________________________ DID YOU LOVE WELL WHAT VERY SOON YOU LEFT? Did you love well what very soon you…
Khế Iêm Tom Disch ____________ CONVALESCING IN LONDON Like a drunk treading on his trouser cuffs, Time lurches past. Time goes too…
Khế Iêm Paul Lake __________________________ BLUE JAY A sound like a rusty pump beneath our window Woke us at dawn. Drawing the…
Khế Iêm Julia Alvarez ________________ WOMAN’S WORK Who says a woman’s work isn’t high art? She’d challenge as she scrubbed the…
Khế Iêm David Hermandez __________________________ HAPPINESS EPIDEMIC Without any warning, the disease sweeps across the country like a traveling circus.
Khế Iêm Lời Giới Thiệu Nhà thơ Khế Iêm và công trình Thơ Mỹ-một thời đáng nhớ (American Poetry-A Memorable time) Bạn đọc từng…
KHẾ IÊM VỚI CON ĐƯỜNG THƠ Những ai từng đọc thơ Khế Iêm, từng dõi theo hành trình thơ của ông, hẳn sẽ “đồng…