Tuesday, June 02, 2015

The Tuesday Poem



The Tuesday Poem this week is "Chernobyl Wedding, 1986" by Naomi Guttman:


Eileen says about this poem:


Selecting a single poem from this wonderful novella in verse, by Canadian poet Naomi Guttman, was no easy matter. There are so many rich pieces, and they run the gamut from narrative, to lyric, from free verse to form, all the way to prose poem. And as in any fictional work, they shift point of view. I chose this pantoum from the Prologue because it foreshadows the trajectory of a long marriage, that survives life’s difficult events, whether personal or worldwide, but not without a price.

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