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<\/a>Did you read The New Yorker<\/em><\/strong> (Feb 11 & 18 issue)? \u00a0Philip Levine<\/strong> has a poem “In Another Country”<\/strong> and when I say it’s dreamy, I mean it literally. In this other country, “. . . There is no town, only \/ fields of long grass blowing in the wind \/ and beyond the wind the gray mountains.” It ends, “. . . . The wind kept prodding \/ at my back as though determined \/ to push me away from where I was, \/ fearful, perhaps, I would come to rest.” It’s a must-read. I picture the landscape to be much like that described by Phil in “Walking in Alicante,” which is in Solace in So Many Words<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\nDonna Hilbert<\/strong> recently attended the San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival<\/strong> and posted on FB a picture of her latest book, The Congress of Luminous Bodies,<\/strong><\/em> which will be out soon from Aortic Books<\/strong>. I’ll \u00a0write more about this in a later post. \u00a0If you’d like to read an interview with Donna<\/strong>,\u00a0she was “The Next Big Thing”<\/strong> and discussed the book and other topics with Lorene Delaney-Ullman<\/strong>, author of the poetry collection Camouflage<\/em> on Goodreads<\/a>.<\/strong> While I was looking up information on Donna<\/strong>, I came across the touching poem called “Where It Happened<\/strong>,”<\/a> which appeared in Silver Birch Press<\/strong> last September. I can’t remember if I already mentioned it, but the poem, one that describes a seaside experience, is worth citing again. One more thing, “From a Rhizome” <\/strong>by Donna<\/strong> appears on Your Daily Poem <\/a><\/strong>–it is a good “waiting for spring” poem.<\/p>\n
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