counting the days

...until Fall 06, and the release of -- according to Mark Doty who is editing for Graywolf Press -- The Collected Poems of Lynda Hull. Finally. Hull died in 1994. Special thanks to Eduardo Corral's blog for the news about Hull's poetry.

A powerful American voice. One of the most original writers in modern literature and most certainly one of America's best poets.

from "The Window"

let me move again among them, through the rooms

of this building, home of my fondest nightmares, let me
stay the hand twisting in rage, let me crush
the white & violet petals of sleep, the black sticky heart

of sleep over the delicate eyelids, over the bodies'
soft geographies