FEATURE
December 2006

Heidi Hart


THE CORTLAND REVIEW

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SSAY
Tony Barnstone
  "A Manifesto on the Contemporary Sonnet: A Personal Aesthetics"
Tony Barnstone considers the sonnet from its formal beginnings to its evolution into the twenty-first century, including some generative techniques for sonnets of your own


S
ONNETS
Tony Barnstone

Willis Barnstone
Lorna Knowles Blake
Kim Bridgford
Billy Collins
Leisha Douglas
Barry Ergang
Ross A. Gay
Soheila Ghaussy This marks an author's first online publication
Miranda Girard This marks an author's first online publication
Myrna Goodman This marks an author's first online publication
Susan Gubernat
Heidi Hart
Jay Leeming This marks an author's first online publication
Anne Marie Macari

Patricia O'Hara
John Poch
Michael Salcman
Patricia Smith
A.E. Stallings

Gerald Stern
Joyce Sutphen
Jeet Thayil
Meredith Trede This marks an author's first online publication

 

This marks an author's first online publication Heidi Hart received her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared, among others, in Quarterly West, Pleiades, Cimarron Review, and Pilgrimage. She is also the author of Grace Notes: The Waking of a Woman's Voice (University of Utah Press, 2004).

Body Sonnet #13    Click to hear in real audio


Our beach finds fill the kitchen bowl:
split blue mussel, ark shell, oyster, whelk
stripped to its column. Tonight, the boys asleep
upstairs, we face each other at the table

and rattle shells in our hands. I can't see yours.
I hold the whelk and two bleached oyster chips.
I like their noise. I like knowing what's lived
inside. You say, We haven't talked for weeks.

You say I look too thin. I want to tell you
my child-ribs surprised me last night in the mirror.
I play my little shells, the meter
of the speech I want to make, the piano

for the singing in my head, the piano
with its bony, knowing hammers.

 

 

Heidi Hart: Poetry
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