Poem of the Week | March 20, 2017
Gregory Fraser: "Like Angels"
This week, we are excited to present a new poem by Gregory Fraser. Fraser is the author of Strange Pietà (Texas Tech), Answering the Ruins and Designed for Flight (Northwestern). The recipient of grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches at the University of West Georgia.
Author’s note:
Recently I have been writing poems that center on immigration, otherness, cultural difference, and violence. I have been reading masters such as Sándor Csoóri, Miklós Radnóti, and Nina Cassian. In the summer of 2015, I flew with a colleague to Nicaragua to interview Claribel Alegría, then ninety-one years old, for a feature on her in the Birmingham Poetry Review. Studying her writing, investigating the ways in which she grapples with the madness of history and the terror of us-them logics, I cobbled together a series of poems that address similar concerns. “Like Angels” emerged from those experiments.
Like Angels
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