Paul Klinger’s “The Speaking Parts” are poems written in “ropes.” Each poem title refers to a writer: Harryette Mullen, A.R. Ammons, Edgar Lee Masters, Gertrude Stein, Alice Notley, Robert Burns, Samuel Johnson, Charles Bernstein, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bernadette Mayer, William Blake, Margaret Cavendish, Susan Howe, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Bishop.

As Klinger's “ropes” slink down the oblong pages they con/verse with the respective writer.


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