is a brief history of coinage. It is also a meditation on our need for certainty, for truth worthy of a capital T. Not least, it is a wonderful cascade of sounds and images:"Their misshapenness strikes the table in tiny splashes,/like still-cooling splatters of silver. Stater and shekel,/mina and obol. Persia's bullion had a lion and bull."
from The Seattle Times: "Bestov, schmestov," but these poems are pretty darned good
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2 comments :
My question is, how does Starnino, a Canadian, get a poem in BAP?
Hi Peter,
You're quick. I was going to e-mail you with the same question, and I wondered if anyone (maybe anyone else) was going to notice.
Yours,
Rus
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