[New-Poetry] Poetry 2008/ Sharon Dolin

[Anny Ballardini]

I am very fond of Sharon Dolin and of her writings, she is a very generous
and bright/intelligent woman. I have a page on the Poets' Corner:
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=183

and she also contributed to the Autumn Anthology:
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=318

thank you for mentioning her.


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:41 AM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

> *To the Family of the Man We Ate 130 Years Ago*
>
>           Nabutautau, Fiji
>
> We are sorry, but when your kinsman, the reverend,
> touched the head of our chief
>       what else could we do?
> The head you must know is the crown
> where the spirit floats and
>       his hand, which had touched so many
> unclean things—his wife's body
> with its many fluids and folds, his own
>       body, a chicken's wing, even
> patted a dog's back with it and then
> he raised it to our chieftain's
>       head to remove a wooden half
> a fishbone—comb, he called it,
> after he had shown him one gliding
>       through his own hair—well—in
> the rain we anointed him with oils
> said our blessings and cooked him
>       and ate him. His boots—we'd never
> seen such things before—we cooked with *bele*
> similar to your spinach but they were
>       too tough. See here, we've kept them
> for almost 130 years and now return them to you.
> Now we offer you many whale's teeth—one
>       for each year his spirit has been
> wandering in our bellies—may he swim
> to shore and stay with you.
>       And may you lift this curse from us
> that has kept us hungry all these years
> with little outside light and very
>       matted hair.
>
> --Sharon Dolin.  * Burn and Dodg*e.  University of Pittsburgh Press,
> 2008.
>
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