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LIGHGHT READING WITH LYRIC HUNTER

“Nantes,” from Lyric Hunter's Swallower (UDP, 2014), followed by a questionnaire with Lyric who will be reading at Lighght Reading on Sunday, September 21st, 4PM at The Floating Library in New York, NY.

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Nantes            
for Allison Taylor

Napoleon’s face

brown bean
brown room
a likeness 

ask me to

(white seaside
town
green leaves) 

velvet hair
music of Prud’hon
our laughter
was spilling 

allow me to
tell you 

black night drive
I was in Wisconsin too 

black room
night & morning too

a terrific noon

a single field
the campagne 

a day or two

a church on a far hill

(conjugated sweaters
new swears
Swiss chocolate)

sea room
dog nausea
clear heart
on the sea 

horses in the air
dangling trees
dripping tress 

anti-Nazi
anti-party 

Nantes at night
our bagarre 

our own city
our own red-headed girl 

welcome welcome
we do so love
how you pronounce!

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What is poetry?

Poetry is an independent city state. Poetry is when the words make themselves, and it is the most exciting when it willfully ignores discipline(s). The most striking thing to me about poetry, or perhaps the thing about the poetry I most like to read, is that it is both fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

What poets/writers/artists do you keep coming back to?

Sylvia Plath and John Keats are, I feel, my literary parents, and I frequently go home . At the same time, philosophy and critical theory can feel like poetry, and my favorites are Cixous, Barthes, and Kristeva.

What do you think when you see the word lighght?

A hiccup. A cough. A glitch. The flickering of fluorescent.

Which new writers and/or small presses are you excited about?

Jody Pou’s poems make my heart be faster. And I’m a big fan of Contrat Maint, directed by poet Pascale Poyet and artist Goria, who make little folded pamphlets with extracts or short poetic texts by poets, artists, and translators. 

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Lyric Hunter was born in New York City in 1990. She graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2012, and her first chapbook, Swallower, was published earlier this year by Ugly Duckling Presse.

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