{"id":8356,"date":"2016-02-09T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=8356"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:22:35","slug":"finish-please","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/finish-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Finish, Please?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can I Finish, Please?<\/em><\/h1>\n

Catherine Bowman<\/h2>\n

Not-quite-woman, not-quite-man, not-quite-animal, not-quite-flower: the poems in Can I Finish, Please?<\/em> are shape-shifting acts, lyric interruptions that crave and resist completion, where the mutable self and the world are made and unmade over and over. These poems explore hungers, from appetite to hedonistic consumption, from prayer to a yearning for generative resolution. An exiled couple remakes a ruined world out of buttons and string; tools give advice on love; a magic walking stick guides a speaker through haunted stone quarries; beds turn into musical instruments; a great antlered deer lives inside a locket; flowers transform into frogs, dogs, hobos in a lecherous garden that howls and laments on the violence we do to each other and the world. Pain and loss are recognized as necessary elements in the making of a self.<\/p>\n

from<\/em> \u201cWalking Stick,\u201d from Can I Finish, Please?<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u2026You charm me across rope bridges\n\nand lead me to what was never lost,\n\nwhere the future becomes past.\n\nTonight under this full moon,\n\na dense tuft of fox hair\n\ncaught in a rose briar shines.\n\nHere where I walk through my own night, \n\nthe night I offer to you as my own. \n\nWalking Stick, where am I? \n\nGrinding at the ground\u2014 \n\nTo go over a river where there is no river \n\nand dream a dream I can\u2019t remember to dream. \n\nTo come on a cloudless night. \n\nTo reason with the wind on a path. \n\nSmoke follows beauty<\/em>, he said.<\/pre>\n
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