Verse Daily: Paul Guest

Today's poem is "Questions for Silence"

from the Southern Review

Paul Guest is the author of two collections of poetry, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World (2003) and Notes for My Body Double (forthcoming). His poems have appeared in various journals, including Poetry, Slate, Crazyhorse, Swink, and New Orleans Review.
Other poems by Paul Guest in Verse Daily:
October 18, 2006: "The God of Neglect, Overheard" " O hearts fat with custard, and sweet..."
March 24, 2006: "The Numbers are Not In" " The world is filled with those who want..."
May 12, 2003: "Apogean" "All this floating is ridiculous, and the stars..."
April 10, 2003: "The Flesh" "Walking to get medicine / for a pet, I am tempted..."
February 13, 2003: "The Advent of Zero" "I know that someday you will tire of everything..."
August 15, 2002: "The Last Words of Alice the Goon" "Understand me now: the light is lace..."
About The Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: Marvin Bell, Madeline DeFrees, Joanne Diaz, Garrett Doherty, Margaret Gibson, Michael Heffernan, David Huddle, Paul Hunter, Zebulon Huset, Richard Jackson, Mary Oliver, Sydney Lea, Al Maginnes, Gianmarc Manzione, David Middleton, Derek Mong, Todd Shy, Matthew Sweeney, Richard Tillinghast, Robert Tremmel, Eliot Khalil Wilson, Melora Wolff

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Editor: Bret Lott

Other from West Branch in Verse Daily:
December 19, 2006: "Questions for Silence" by Mary Oliver
September 13, 2006: "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006: "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006: "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006: "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006: "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006: "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004: "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004: "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004: "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004: "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004: "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004: "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004: "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004: "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004: "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004: "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004: "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003: "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
August 19, 2003: "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003: "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003: "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
June 5, 2003: "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
May 1, 2003: "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003: "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002: "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002: Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002: "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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