Today's poem is "Monkey Heart"
from I is to Vorticism
Ben Mirov
lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is editor of pax americana. He is also poetry editor of LIT Magazine.
Books by Ben Mirov:
Other poems on the web by Ben Mirov:
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Fallout"
Seven poems
Five poems
Ben Mirov's Blog.
About I is to Vorticism:
"A recurring character in the poetry of Ben Mirov is Ben Mirov, part charming host, part self-inflicted lab experiment in a debut dedicated to demonstrating our daily, perilous transformations. These poems are sudden, agile, heart-strong, and as wonderfully unsolvable as their analogical title. Welcome to the surgical theater. You're finally going to learn how to sleep with your eyes open."
"These poems and parables celebrate the idea of no self, even as they sing a host of eccentric alter-egos and delightfully strange secret-identities into being. Using 'interstellar ventriloquism,' Ben Mirov is able to inhabit several worlds at once. He deftly mixes the mythic with the mundane, the literary with the cartoonish, sincerity and simulacra. The result is an impressive, often hilarious, book that truly works on many levels."
Dobby Gibson
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