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Places change us. Many of the writers I’ve admired have always held fast to a sense of place...
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Larry Sawyer
Larry Sawyer curates the Myopic Books reading series in Chicago and is the co-director of The Chicago School of Poetics. His books include Unable to Fully California (Otoliths Press), Vertigo Diary (BlazeVox Books), and Breaking Lorca (White Hole Press). Cy Gist Press will publish his BESTIARY in 2014. Larry also edits milk magazine (since 1998). His poetry and literary reviews have appeared in publications including The Chicago Tribune, Action Yes, Forklift Ohio, Vanitas, Skanky Possum, Exquisite Corpse, Court Green, Shampoo, Rain Taxi, Van Gogh's Ear, and elsewhere. Chicago Reader picked him as Best Poet in its 2012 and 2013 Readers' Poll. About Vertigo Diary: “ … Larry’s poetry gives me the best kind of vertigo: the kind where you’re afraid of falling, but when you do you fall into a soft, meaty, sensual, smart ravine that shakes you pretty good, but instead of killing you it turns you into a Thinking Cocktail. What a scary and fine artist Mr. Sawyer is!" —Andrei Codrescu
Larry Sawyer curates the Myopic Books reading series in Chicago and is the co-director of The Chicago School of Poetics. His books include Unable to Fully California (Otoliths Press), Vertigo Diary (BlazeVox Books), and Breaking Lorca (White Hole Press). Cy Gist Press will publish his BESTIARY in 2014. Larry also edits milk magazine (since 1998). His poetry and literary reviews have appeared in publications including The Chicago Tribune, Action Yes, Forklift Ohio, Vanitas, Skanky Possum, Exquisite Corpse, Court Green, Shampoo, Rain Taxi, Van Gogh's Ear, and elsewhere. Chicago Reader picked him as Best Poet in its 2012 and 2013 Readers' Poll. About Vertigo Diary: “ … Larry’s poetry gives me the best kind of vertigo: the kind where you’re afraid of falling, but when you do you fall into a soft, meaty, sensual, smart ravine that shakes you pretty good, but instead of killing you it turns you into a Thinking Cocktail. What a scary and fine artist Mr. Sawyer is!" —Andrei Codrescu
Posts by Larry Sawyer
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Of Tchaikovsky
*Some of these poems originally appeared in Court Green and Verse Daily. Laughing,...
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Nefertiti, Duck!
History hits you—headlong into swan dive That mushy cataclysm called morning Opens your eyes. Back...
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The Trees Around Trees
Need me. In order to gain Notice in their otherwise Ignored existences. Look, I Was reading once...
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Flowers for Frank
When a friend died From an overdose and Strewn about, all those Flowers. I’d never noticed...
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