Poem of the Week | July 03, 2012
Sarah Grieve: "Ode in a Bikini"
In honor of the heat wave and holiday, we offer Sarah Grieve’s ode. Grieve is a third year PhD student studying 20th century American poetry at Arizona State University. She has degrees from Florida State University (MFA) and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (MA & BA). Her poems have recently appeared in RATTLE, New Madrid, Apalachee Review, and New Ohio Review. She has finally adjusted to living in the desert — in other words, she spends her summers elsewhere.
Author’s Note:
I have always had a love/hate relationship with the sun: I love it, and it hates me. Growing up in a Southern California beach town, this resulted in my skin glowing red for the duration of many teenage summers. In my studies, I have become interested in the ways poets address the objects and elements around them, the things with which we interact in subtle and meaningful ways on a daily basis. By addressing the sun, I discovered that the act of putting on a bikini represents many of my feelings about womanhood, beauty, and desire.
Ode in a Bikini
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