S.E. Smith “I don’t care if it’s a lie, as long as it’s entertaining.” Who is she talking to? The police. Counter/anti-/ubersublime The pattern is necessary to enjoy the variation Prosthetic stuff & inverted money shots The point of time and the purpose of god—the appointed time, crucial time “Knowing Danish, I don’t know Danish” A book that makes a monument of itself is not allowed to complete the finite form. Is there any completion to the infinite EXCEPT IN THE SUBLIME? Child point of view is good for the disenfranchised. America is a nation of desperadoes. “Mom Camp” FUCK FUCK ...
[When a man loves a woman, they journey] When a man loves a woman, they journey into the Cleveland, Ohio of their youths. What better to greet these weary pilgrims than Key Tower, the Western Reserve, exceptional K-12 education? Deeply discounted motels raise their savage maws in approval. Here, in a darkened room, the lovers perform a dance called the Hungry Tiger. Even an unsilenced cellphone, a bully loudly slicing a sandwich with scissors, could ruin this crystalline ritual. You may be the finest Inuit boot model ever to two-step it across the tundra, but even the strongest succumb. ...
We’re delighted to pass on some wonderful news: issue one contributor Lillian-Yvonne Bertram won the Red Hen Press poetry contest, and her first collection, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, is forthcoming in 2012. If you’ve read her poems in OH NO (all three of which appear in the manuscript), you know her work is inventive, funny, and tough (or more like, TUFF), and like us, you can’t wait to have the book on your shelf.
