Chernoff, Maxine 2000
Wednesday, October 4, 2000
with Paul Hoover
with Paul Hoover
Spring, we decided, was more
oppressive than winter with
its alyssum and clover
and the sheer weight of life
crowding us off the page.
– Maxine Chernoff, “Granted”
Listen to Maxine Chernoff’s 2000 Poetry Center reading:
What the body might guess,
what the hand requests,
what language assumes
becomes amulet,
which is to say
I am carrying your face
in a locket in a box
to a virtual location
guarded by kestrels,
– Maxine Chernoff, “Scene”
Watch Maxine Chernoff read her poetry:
