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Rattle #51, Spring 2016
Feminist Poets
Rattle #51 features a lengthy tribute to 31 feminist poets, and a conversation with award-winning author of The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson. As always, we put out a call for submissions not knowing what we’d receive, then selected the most powerful sample from the thousands of poems that were shared. What does it mean to be a feminist poet in the 21st century? There might be as many answers to that question as there are feminist poets—each of those featured provide their perspectives in an especially important contributor notes section.
There’s so much great poetry in the feminist poets feature that we had to shrink our open section to fit it all in—but we still offer a dozen eclectic selections from our general submissions, including Rattle favorites like Francesca Bell, Billy Collins, and M, as well as new names we’ve never published before.
Cover art by Stacie Primeaux
Rattle #51 features a lengthy tribute to 31 feminist poets, and a conversation with award-winning author of The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson. As always, we put out a call for submissions not knowing what we’d receive, then selected the most powerful sample from the thousands of poems that were shared. What does it mean to be a feminist poet in the 21st century? There might be as many answers to that question as there are feminist poets—each of those featured provide their perspectives in an especially important contributor notes section.
There’s so much great poetry in the feminist poets feature that we had to shrink our open section to fit it all in—but we still offer a dozen eclectic selections from our general submissions, including Rattle favorites like Francesca Bell, Billy Collins, and M, as well as new names we’ve never published before.
Cover art by Stacie Primeaux
- GenresPoetry
99 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2016
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November 22, 2016
Rattle is, in my opinion, the best poetry lit magazine out there! Get a subscription and find out!
Timothy Green never misses with the powerful beauties in each issue!
#51 is a particular favorite because of its theme. I have been inspired by each and every poem in this issue! WOW! I am going to give you a few stanzas of one poem by Heather Bell titled 'While Trying to Write a Novel'
"I take a bath. I fill the bathtub with a face and
a voice. I fill the bathtub with a man on a bicycle.
The man on a bicycle is you and I allow November
to kill him. Or, a dog runs after the man, biting at
his brown shoes until I fall out of the bathtub.
While trying to write a novel, I ache as I smoke
a cigar. I smoke cigars to forget you. I load the
dishwasher. I load the dishwasher with a global
village, let you walk through the village right before
it is bombed. I sit on the countertop and say
nothing. Your body and skin looks like what is
always taken away. It is only a body. It is only
a body. My therapist tells me to meditate on
sentences, which will help release them from me..."
Get a copy! Get a subscription! Unparalleled and powerful! LOVE!
Timothy Green never misses with the powerful beauties in each issue!
#51 is a particular favorite because of its theme. I have been inspired by each and every poem in this issue! WOW! I am going to give you a few stanzas of one poem by Heather Bell titled 'While Trying to Write a Novel'
"I take a bath. I fill the bathtub with a face and
a voice. I fill the bathtub with a man on a bicycle.
The man on a bicycle is you and I allow November
to kill him. Or, a dog runs after the man, biting at
his brown shoes until I fall out of the bathtub.
While trying to write a novel, I ache as I smoke
a cigar. I smoke cigars to forget you. I load the
dishwasher. I load the dishwasher with a global
village, let you walk through the village right before
it is bombed. I sit on the countertop and say
nothing. Your body and skin looks like what is
always taken away. It is only a body. It is only
a body. My therapist tells me to meditate on
sentences, which will help release them from me..."
Get a copy! Get a subscription! Unparalleled and powerful! LOVE!
June 5, 2017
May Day. All of the poems, the Maggie Nelson interview. And always May Day.
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January 13, 2018Liked:
Christine Poreba, The Uncertainest Word
Claire Blotter, Rocking
Maggie Nelson interview also had some great, interesting stuff about poetry performance and its social and aesthetic foibles
Favourite:
Lisa Baird, Vagus Nerve - earthy/funny prose poem about an internet video of a dog peeing, and about embodiedness and pleasure in humans and animals
Christine Poreba, The Uncertainest Word
Claire Blotter, Rocking
Maggie Nelson interview also had some great, interesting stuff about poetry performance and its social and aesthetic foibles
Favourite:
Lisa Baird, Vagus Nerve - earthy/funny prose poem about an internet video of a dog peeing, and about embodiedness and pleasure in humans and animals
February 20, 2021
This collection of poems was more than that. There was also an interview with a poet at the end of the book, which I found to be lacking. I don't want interviews in my collected poetry book. The poems are submitted through Rattle as they produce anthologies. I enjoyed the works within the book well enough.
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