27 August 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 2
Elegy
The human tongue, in disbelief, obsesses
at the tender pit of a tooth,
insists on entering the empty room again
and again until it cankers, until even
the simplest word for loss is raw in the mouth.
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About the author:
Sean Nevin teaches creative writing at Arizona State University where he is director of the Young Writer's Program and is co-editor of 22 Across: a Review of Young Writers. He is the recipient of Literature Fellowships in Poetry from both the NEA and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poems have been published in numerous journals including: the Gettysburg Review, North American Review, 42opus, JAMA, and Hayden's Ferry Review. He is the author of A House that Falls (Slapering Hol Press) and Oblivio Gate, which won the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry First Book Prize (Southern Illinois University Press).
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Sean Nevin at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 8, No. 2, where "Elegy" ran on August 27, 2008. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
