Issue 4.1
Winter 2024
Lance Newman
Reflection
This is a selection from Proverbs of Earth, a manuscript of very short poems made from words that occur in Henry Thoreau’s Walden. One of William Blake’s "Proverbs of Hell" reads, “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” Proverbs of Earth explores the harmonic interference between an antique lexicon and contemporary experience.
Lance Newman teaches literature, media, and writing at Westminster University in Salt Lake City. His poems have appeared in magazines in the US, the UK, and Australia. He has published two chapbooks: Come Kanab (Dusie, 2007) and 3by3by3 (Beard of Bees, 2010). http://www.lancenewman.org
Lance's Book Recommendation
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Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works, Jenny Penberthy, ed. (University of California Press, 2002).
I think in scraps of fire
at fixed hours. Birds commuting
to set down a clutch of eggs
just there. The theatre
of baking in a storm.