Prufer, Kevin 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
with Elise Paschen
with Elise Paschen
Then it is autumn in the body.
Your hands are cold.
Then it is winter and we are still at war.
– Kevin Prufer, “In a Beautiful Country”
Listen to an interview with Kevin Prufer on New Books in Poetry:
They wanted him to stop kicking like that–
it made their eyes corkscrew, drilled the sun in the sky
so light dumped out like blood from a leak.
The boy in the trunk wouldn’t die.
– Kevin Prufer, “There Is No Audience for Poetry”
Read an interview with Kevin Prufer from the Kenyon Review:
Kevin Prufer | Kenyon Review Conversations
Kevin Prufer’s newest books are In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011) and National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008). With D. A. Powell, he recently edited Dunstan Thompson: On […]
