The Transparent Dinner
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"The Transparent Dinner, a book"
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101 years old
ASTORIA, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login:12/25/2007
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| General | poetry, poets, free verse, poems, colors, feminists, gothic, dark, humor, Dickinson, Plath, Sexton, Bukowski, blood and guts, romance gone bad | | Movies | Tidewater, City of Lost Children, Nightmare before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow | | Books | Why Things Burn, Go Ask Ogre, Girlbomb, Black Wings and Blind Angels, Three Lives, Riot in the Charm Factory... | | Heroes | Sexon, Plath, Gottlieb, Colby, Lorber, Rich, Cisneros, Loudon,
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn |
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About me:
I'm a poetry book by Christine Hamm.
Here's something about Christine:
Christine Hamm is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University, where she was awarded a Caspersen Scholarship for Academic Promise. Her poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, Pebble Lake Review, Horseless Press, Lodestar Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry Midwest, MiPoesias, Rattle, Snow Monkey and Exquisite Corpse, among others. In 2004, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader and The Murdering of Our Years: Artists and Activists Making Ends Meet, both by Soft Skull Press. Christine is on the editorial board of several literary journals, including Vernacular. She teaches English at Rutgers University and poetry writing at Women's Studio Center in Queens, NY. She has two chapbooks out: The Animal Husband and The Salt Daughter. Her full-length book, The Transparent Dinner, was just recently published by Mayapple Press. For more about her, including reviews of her work, go to www.christinehamm.org.
Here's a sample from my insides:
The Bad Secretary
She weeps into your coffee; staples memos to her blouse. She has acne; her lipstick smears. She breaks up with her boyfriend every other weekend and makes you hear about it. She is always twenty minutes late. She sometimes answers the phone with a stunned silence, as if she’s forgotten not only where she works and who she is, but what a phone is. She loses files. She erases files. Her nails are so long she can’t type. She has carpal tunnel so she can’t type. She shows up one Monday in a neck brace. She forgets to wear a bra. She swears (a lot). She refuses to get you lunch. You find a voodoo doll of yourself in her desk. She makes you hate her. She smells of cinnamon and dog shit. When she wears a tank top, you swear you see the flutter of wings around her shoulder blades. Your palm pilot melts in its cradle. Your tie makes like a lobster and pinches your nose. Your titanium G-4 explodes. You can’t stop yourself from putting your tongue in her mouth. She doesn’t wear underwear. She doesn’t bathe. She makes you love her. She is your master.
Joy School
for Joseph Cornell
Why is it that when people speak
of joy or paint
its substance, the canvas is a vast
blue sky or an acre of snow, broken
maybe by a few black boughs.
My joy teaches me small:
tiny and dark with delicate moving parts
in the shadows,
like the ripple of a salmon gill
under the river
or a small vintage machine
with obscure purpose and many
gears whirring.
My joy is not made in the huge
bright handclap of God.
It is made by tiny mice paws
in the mud. It is made of straw
and teeth,
with a few white feathers.
Go here to order me: www.christinehamm.org
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