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James Baker Hall has a new and selected out: The Total Light Process: New and Selected Poems (University Press of Kentucky). On April 7, he will be reading with Mary Ann Taylor-Hall at Fauntleroy’s Café, 640 West Maxwell Street, Lexington. On April 8, he will read at Carmichael’s Frankfort Avenue store in Louisville with the Green River Writers’ own Jean Tucker. Jean will be reading from her new book, First View of Mesolonghi (Grex Press).
The poem below is from The Mother on the Other Side of the World (Sarabande, 1999). It is one of my very favorite “ars poetica” poems:
Ars Poetica
the way a fox slips into one side
of your headlights and carrying his tail
(like a pen running out of ink) slips
out the other —
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