Monthly Archives: February 2010

faith run

Faith Run begins with “a poem of one hundred tongues” that “realigns the saxophone / until two hundred eardrums respond, // the music building into a text that wants to spill / the wine out of the conches” (3). From … Continue reading

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china suite and other poems

Gillian Bickley is at her best when she lets the everyday surprises of multicultural, multilingual Hong Kong speak for themselves — as in the “prophet’s message” on a lamp-post “where usually the police affix notices / seeking witnesses of fatal … Continue reading

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