Is there room for another horse on your horse ranch? : poems /
Cyrus Cassells has perfected a poetics of merciful vitality and tenderness, celebrating eros, in his daring and prolific representation of lust, yes, but more broadly in his understanding of the erotic as an affirmation and preservation of life, through time and space. Beginning his latest collectio...
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Tribeca, New York :
Four Way Books,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- I. You be the dancer. You be the dancer
- My only Bible
- Act of gratitude
- Maples anticipating their autumn colors
- The bamboo labyrinth
- Spring comes to the city of Lisbon
- It's your favorite foreign movie
- How many lives have we lived in Paris?
- Is there room for another horse on your horse ranch?
- A troubadour in Girona
- Full moon rising over Ischia
- Horsemen watching two ancient cities burn
- Fado for Xavier, the move-along man
- Détente (here comes the Cold War again)
- Blood rushing to a knight's head.
- II. Like a bird of a more winged world. Corsair
- The "Land Ho" kiss
- The botanist (is there gas in the car?)
- Fish caught in his meshes
- The desire path
- Man exiting a mighty fortress
- Verse in which the poet's new lover carves him into a Sicilian puppet
- Theater of swans and mysteries
- Conversation in the ruined temple of Hera
- Mirtiotissa!
- The wrestlers (Caramelo and Guapo Gringo)
- Coyote seduces a statue
- I met a gladiator (Ben-him)
- The winter we slept between bantering owls
- Winter pillow book #3
- Like a bird of a more winged world
- I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell.