Poem of the Week | September 18, 2012
Kimberly Johnson: "The Trumpetvine Clarions to the Honeybees"
This week we’re featuring another poem from our new Summer issue, 35.2. Kimberly Johnson is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God, as well as a verse translation of Virgil’s Georgics. Recipient of grants and awards from the the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Utah Arts Council, Johnson has work recent or forthcoming in The New Yorker, Slate, and New England Review.
Author’s Statement:
[This poem comes from] a series of twelve poems which organize themselves around the hours of the liturgical day, from the matins prayers in the morning to the vespers in the evening and then on through the vigil of the nighttime hours. The office of Lauds is sung in the early morning, and usually includes the singing of Psalms 148 through 150…I guess I ended up thinking that any celebration in words constitutes an inevitable diminishment of the object of praise. Which is a bummer of a realization for a poet to have…
The Trumpetvine Clarions to the Honeybees
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