Why I Am White
A poem I wrote called Why I Am White is now available from Kitchen Press.
Thanks to Efrem Oshinsky who did the art that's on the cover.
posted by Mathias Svalina @ 5:19 PM
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
A poem I wrote called Why I Am White is now available from Kitchen Press.
Thanks to Efrem Oshinsky who did the art that's on the cover.
- Mathias Svalina
- Denver, Colorado
All of the European Starlings found today in North America--and they number in the 200 million range--are descendants of approximately 100 birds introduced in New York City's Central Park in the early 1890s. A society dedicated to introducing into America all of the birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare set these birds free.
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9 Comments:
F$#%!* yeah!
i'm trembling, bridgeishly.
will you come to my house and read this to me in the woods, and i'll record it and play it back on a continuous loop to scare away the crows, or perhaps, bring them closer? These giant white crows cawing their heads off over a lack of eyes or seeds to eat.
Mathias! This makes me terribly happy! And tremblingly, too! Yay!
Congratulations.
Mark Horosky
Yea! Me Matty chap is on the way!
I would like a sample poem please. Or where have any of the poems within appeared ... none on the KP site, none that I can see. I need coffee though ...
Congratulations too! I'll hit Justin up for one in exchange for cash, of course.
In this grandslam debut chapbook Professor Svalina asks probing questions such as "White people are annoying-- but why?" (p6) and "I like white walls, don't you?" (p8). You will read the chapbook and uncontrollably want to kiss your subway neighbor's cheek, no matter what color, and exclaim, "What can I say! I like white women!" (p8).
--Poets & Writers
Amy,
None of it has appeared in journals. The chapbook is one poem, meant to be read breathlessly through the night, like a Harry Potter novel.
Thanks for the nice words, y'all.
I'm looking for one Jeff Bridges, and four Jeff Goldblums. (And, yes, they're easy to find.)
Yes!!!!
Some of it once appeared in a pamphlet, which is a kind of journal, but who wrote it will of course have to remain anonymous.
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