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Book Review: Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
I have a new hobby: reading while I walk on the treadmill. A certain amount of attentiveness is required so I don’t fall off, but happily I have no accidents—as yet—to report. If you have a treadmill,...
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Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
You’ve probably had the pleasure of being sucked into a really beautiful magazine, a National Geographic, for example, or The Smithsonian. You may have felt the inertia of a story winding down as you...
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Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Driving home from work, I turn to my husband and ask, “Isn’t everyone, to some extent, a sociopath?” “Yes,” he answered. “We have to be to survive.” A sociopath, according to Dictionary.com, is...
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120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
Return, pt. III I am chaos, furious thunder, pinning you down to my soil, wondering what will grow, stretching you, your farthest tips, furthermost points. We align, I aim to make you my best...
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Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
The epigraph to Monica Ong’s book, Silent Anatomies, reads: “I wish I could tenderly lift from the dark side of history, voices that are anonymous, slighted—inarticulate” (Susan Howe). And this is...
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121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
Horsehead Last night, you bared your soul to me, dark clusters of dust and swirls, infrared blues and oranges, they’ve never seen a beauty like you. Life with an asterisk, the pros...
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Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
On almost every page, this book is a gut punch. It is the haunting song of an Arab American in the wake of 9/11 and the “War on Terror.” It exposes the reader to a few of the harrowing details of the...
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122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
Communion: a love poem (a villanelle) Make it more than bread and wine– more than unleavened and red –lace your heart into mine. Let out the old bones and hem my spine...
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123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
Agricola Dreams of Flying A pair of fat fledgeling songbirds and their narrow golden parents are clutched together along a low roof’s rim in a clearing. A grey bird, predator-sized but the character...
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Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
After four and half years with Doves and Serpents, Psaltery & Lyre has moved to its own website. You can check it out here. A heartfelt thank you to all the folks at D&S for making us so...
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