Alex Grant's Writings
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Poem
Feb.17.2012
"Bloody Heaven" (Poetry Book)
Galileo
- I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Poem
May.14.2010
Fear of Moving Water
Lillian Gish’s Mirror
Silk curtains swish
quiet as a stage-whisper,
signal an encore performance
at the academy of flesh.
Around this silvered screen,
the once-red bulbs, now
chiffon-pink, hum
their faint applause.
A quiet acceptance,
beatitude of years, pervades
her shrinking days
and every day
the mirror darkens,
the...
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Poem
Apr.09.2009
The Missouri Review
The Magician
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Stars on his fingernails, sky in his hair, breath of the sea in his voice.
His father sailed west on an Ottoman clipper -journey of the Magus
from Constantinople. The magician knows the world, feels its blind
dominions held tight in the sleight of his hand. We stumble through...
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Poem
Jun.13.2008
Poemeleon
Some online poems here:
Poemeleon: http://www.poemeleon.org/display/Search?searchQuery=alex+grant&moduleId=...
Poetry Southeast: http://www.poetrysoutheast.com/fall2006/ and
http://www.poetrysoutheast.com/spring2007/
Kaleidowhirl: http://home.windstream.net/ellablue/summer07.html
Mannequin Envy: http://www.mannequinenvy.com/a....
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About Alex
Alex Grant's Chains & Mirrors won the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best North Carolina poetry collection) and the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize. Fear of Moving Water, his 2009 collection, was runner-up for both the Oscar Arnold Young and the...
Connections
Causes Alex Grant Supports
Southern Poverty Law Center
Amnesty International
Moveon.org
Alex’s Favorite Books
Catcher in the Rye, Journey to Ixtlan, Voyage to Arcturus, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The White Hotel, The Four Quartets, The World Doesn't End...