Poem of the Week | August 11, 2012
Christopher Bakken: "Confession"
This week, with Leo roaring, we offer up this new poem by Christopher Bakken. Bakken is the author of After Greece (2001) and Goat Funeral (2006), as well as a forthcoming culinary action/adventure memoir called Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table (University of California Press, 2013). He teaches at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.
Photo by Kelly Gorney
Author’s Statement:
“Confession,” along with six other poems like it, arrived during a strange and unusually fertile two weeks of writing last fall. In each of these poems, two figures are falling apart in an imagined, somewhat allegorical landscape: the sea is almost always close; the mind is coming undone; and even the simplest objects seem estranged from certainty. I think of these poems as dream songs and have scattered them throughout my new collection of poems, Impressions of a Drowning Man, which deals with the problem—or maybe the idea—of suicide.
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