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dancing girl press, 2014
$7.00 Katrin Talbot is the author of St. Cecilia’s Daze (Parallel Press, 2010), Winterreise: a winter journey in poetry, image and song (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Talbot is a concert violist and performs with the Madison Symphony Orchestra. 'Ordinary' …had the fish hook out this dreary morning-- lept off the dictionary page, away from all stunning associations with judges and Masses in the middle of a succulent column and into my head where it didn't fit, buzzed around all through the coffee grinding, the cat’s gravelly purr, the somber stillness of the pines outside so I picked up a fuchsia Tinkerbell pencil to address its demands But I had to be honest; contrary to its reputation, 'Ordinary' is not intrinsically comforting to me-- more often than not, I crave ‘Extra-‘ |