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Somewhere Upriver by Patrick Loafman
Somewhere Upriver by Patrick Loafman












Somewhere Upriver by Patrick Loafman

“Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” -Charles Simic “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” -Boris Pasternak If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” -Donald Hall “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise.

Somewhere Upriver by Patrick Loafman

On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” -Yevgeny Zamyatin “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” -Anne Sexton "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." - Carl Sandburg Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here.

Somewhere Upriver by Patrick Loafman

Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry.














Somewhere Upriver by Patrick Loafman