Author: Julia Thacker
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SEPTEMBER INTERVIEW with Julia Thacker
Julia Thacker’s debut collection To Wildness was recently awarded the Anthony Hecht prize by Paul Muldoon. The book makes its way through the wilds of New England, grieving the family born and buried there. To Wildness is enamored with the world of sense, yet lingers close to the realm of the dead. It is elegiac,…
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TWO POEMS by Julia Thacker
Aubade My ghosts line up, mouths full of bitter greens and sweet grasses, names chalked on the walls of ruined buildings, the night smelling of their breath. One wears a split lip, saxophone-blown. Sometimes he calls in sick. I am not your splendid harness. Don’t wait up. What is sleep anyway. Barnyard animals, goats…