Poetry
Tailor-Made
How can a punishment fit a crime?
What’s not ill-suited to a wrong?
The pants will always be too long;
Sisyphus got his overtime,
But how irrelevant! being light
In a heavy, dark and wrenching wind
Didn’t drape well across the kind
Of shape poor dear Francesca’s tight
Little hot games with Paolo took.
Sagging, with their braces frayed,
The overkill, the underplayed
Will always have an ugly look.
Contributor
John HollanderJohn Hollander is the Sterling Professor of English at Yale. His most recent collection of poetry is A Draft of Light (Knopf, 2008).
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
By Yvonne C. GarrettFEB 2020 | Books
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime By Women Writers is a patriarchy-challenging collection of noir by women. Not all of these tales are told from a woman’s perspective, nor are they all presenting a feminist perspective, but most are wonderfully wrought, chilling tales of revenge, redemption, the evil that men do, and just what these women do about it.
Cindy Ji Hye Kim: Verses from the Apocalypse
By Amelia FarleyOCT 2019 | ArtSeen
Illustrated with cartoonish hyperbole, Verses from the Apocalypse resembles the out-of-order panels of a dark, smutty comic book: spotlit vignettes of women bondaged by construction materials, restrained by scaffolds, fettered to medieval torture devices, and occasionally nose-deep in books, as if language itself were a form of punishment.
Ebony G. Patterson: ...to dig between the cuts, beneath the leaves, below the soil?
By Amber Officer-NarvasaDEC 19-JAN 20 | ArtSeen
In 1899, the British colonial administration in Jamaica passed a set of legislation known as the Public Gardens Regulation Act. Designed to systematize the maintenance of public spaces throughout the island, the act established a framework of policing and punishment on “any land maintained at public expense.”
four
By Donna de la PerrièreMAR 2019 | Poetry
Donna de la Perrière is the author of two full-length books, True Crime and Saint Erasure. A third book, Works of Love & Terror, is forthcoming from Talisman House in the spring of 2019. She teaches in San Francisco and lives in Oakland. Read more at www.donnadelaperriere.net
