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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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MICHAEL SHORB The Great Atlantic Garbage patch Somewhere between the cocktail-strewn verandahs of Bermuda and Portugal’s Azores Islands lurks several thousand square miles of what the newspaper terms ‘a confetti of plastic debris.’ They say much of this catastrophe’s invisible to naked eyes, swirled by bending currents of poisoned water until it resembles a giant net rehearsing for the days when it will harvest men, a new Moby Dick transmuted from soda bottles hidden in the open seas and brooding, brooding waiting for the next innocent Ahab to pass this way. Michael Shorb has lived in California most of his life. His work reflects an abiding interest in myth, history, and the lyrical form, as well as a satirical focus on present day trends and events. His poems have appeared in over 150 magazines and anthologies, including The Nation, The Sun, Michigan Quarterly Review, Kansas Quarterly, Rain City Review, Shakespeare Newsletter, Commonweal, Religious Humanism, Shoofly, Beatitude, European Judaism, THE DOLPHIN'S ARC (anthology), BELL RINGING IN AN EMPTY SKY (anthology), TO BE A MAN (anthology) and NAMES IN A JAR: 100 AMERICAN POETS (anthology). |
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