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    Animal Husbandry Today
    Animal Husbandry Today
    Animal Husbandry Today
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    Animal Husbandry Today

    By Jamie Sharpe

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    An accessible and illuminating debut collection that explores the arranged marriage of the bestial and humane
    Logic is strained, existence contracts and multiplies, connections amputate then graft in incongruous ways in Jamie Sharpe’s poems, which, like a funhouse mirror, reflect our own absurd image.
    Nancy Reagan promotes crab salad (which is to say, her husband); the city of Paris spills into the countryside; a hammer seeks understanding through a vase. An assemblage of often disparate elements, Animal Husbandry Today attempts the ultimate reconciliation: that of the mind with the world.

    A plane crashes on the border of two countries.
    Can you wear white to the funeral
    If you’re a virgin before mayday?
    — from “Two Trains”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781770903111
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      Animal Husbandry Today - Jamie Sharpe

      Deborah

      MASSACRE AT SUPERSTITION BLUFF

      Stagecoach with a penchant to drink,

      the tinhorn crucifix,

      cracked wheels fixated

      on a chasm below,

      chaste revolvers filled

      with explosive chorus girls,

      gentle reins

      and the masochistic horse:

      all the same under gravity.

      Locals’ arrows pointing you

      in new directions,

      to find a fable, a life,

      elsewhere.

      INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR NILS LUZAK, CLASSICAL PIANIST

      What makes us hate

      piano tuners?

      Their jealous eyes?

      You ever allegro your father?

      Why does

      E

      -flat major

      do terrible things, like

      excite optometrists?

      Does ivory make the softest bed?

      Ebony the hardest casket?

      Should eyes be gouged

      for greater musical acuity?

      In Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,

      when skies open and vengeance

      bolts heavenly, are you Rachmaninoffing

      hell from those helpless pedals?

      Given baroque means

      deformed pearl, should one

      graft one thousand shattered

      oysters’ shells to every piano’s hull?

      Mother-of-pearl is visual trickery,

      destined for the secular and profane?

      Harmonics are paternal lies,

      doomed to become sacred?

      Why must each chord contain

      a condemned father?

      Why must I see the music so clearly?

      EQUILATERAL POEMS

      Receding                    Matchbook

      "For danger eclipsed

      every excuse for him to

      pursue laundry instead

      of silk whiter-whites in

      the Biltmore Hotel, where

      Diane’s blouse was but

      temporary advertising."

      Alimony

      Mixed metaphor                    Sedentary

      "The girls flitting past

      were sparrows. What she

      saw as those delicate

      bodies ran was not the

      youthful abandon of

      playgrounds, but a life

      she’d never rise to."

      Rash

      Productive                    Means

      "The whir of fabric,

      at such speed, cancelled

      thought. For others this

      sound haunted sleep, while

      Aura spent a week’s wages

      on an industrial fan,

      placing it next to her cot,

      replicating work’s perfect

      emptiness in dreams."

      White Noise

      FÖRARBETE

      After the container,

      how to recognize

      the content —

      easily cast,

      always held —

      if not inscribed upon?

      A regret for what

      amounts to faulty math

      1000x over.

      The want for concrete

      markers to parse us into

      ever smaller marks.

      When to realize

      is to lay to rest.

      What are we preparing for?

      THE POINTLESS ODYSSEY

      Frank gave you 2:1

      That someone, somewhere, was

      Putting on his shoes. Pompous

      Certainty makes bookies preachers;

      You have to break them or go broke.

      Outside, you Benjamin a man with a baseball bat

      To watch your car. He turns, smashing a Lexus,

      Shattering the car’s headlights.

      A lady yells from across the street,

      I paid you twenty.

      The price has gone up.

      In the children’s hospital you place

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