spring/summer 2011
The poems in this issue of Chaparral center around betrayal and politics, marriage and race, and the earth’s very terrain. They are poems of the world. And they leave nothing out: not the pain, not the ecstasy, not the loving and the dying. It’s the risk and innovation and craft that allow the world come alive in these works—reminding us again, as Dana Levin so aptly says in the interview featured in this issue, that poetry is ultimately about “figuring out how to live life.”
