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Chad Faries

Chad Faries grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he is managing editor of the Cream City Review. He has translated poetry from Serbian and travels to Eastern Europe extensively. He has published interviews, essays, poems, and photographs in New American Writing, Afterimage, Phoebe, Prosodia, Mudfish, Barrow Street, Oxford Magazine, Left Curve, Yefief, and others. His poems have been translated into Serbian and Romanian. His manuscript, Measuring Clouds with a Stick, was a finalist for the 2000 Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award.

Cadenza for the Production of a Love Poem

21 February 2006
Vol. 5, No. 4
poetry

If I brush your cheek

with this finger

you'll still not know

the real poems I

had stashed for you

in that box.

Cadenza for Ne Me Quitte Pas: Solo Boy or Girl

2 December 2001
Vol. 1
poetry

Let me become

the shadow of your shadow

and after all this explaining

I'll recite insane words…

Cadenza for Vladimir Holan's "Reminiscence"

2 December 2001
Vol. 1
poetry

After wandering for so many hours up

and down looking for 711 Roosevelt,

its fake gray slate siding shimmering dull

(the soft ash pads of a paw) at high noon…

Catalonian Cadenza for Big Head Todd and the Monsters

2 December 2001
Vol. 1
poetry

There's always more than a ghost and closed eye dream in his-

story, in the angel turning retrograde to face the sun.

Beyond my room, nuns in unison are vibrating at my wall.

They, in threes, strumming turns…

I Want You Cadenza: A Male Poem While Listening to Elvis Costello

2 December 2001
Vol. 1
poetry

It's knowing that you're not

after only guessing—

The first thing that comes to mind

is a mute child with a sonar detector…