Naked Oyster Mother troubling senses of historic knowing

troubling senses of historic knowing while moving inside the continuing afterlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery

Previous poems have been published in The Chicago Review

Elisabeth Houston

and “Death at the Very Touch

Naked Oyster Mother troubling senses of historic knowingPoppy Cockburn Naked Oyster, the debut collection by Poppy Cockburn author of pamphlets such as Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon and feed notes gathers 100 odd of her pithiest, prettiest and most coruscating poems. A specialist of the aphorism, the two to four liner in her hands is turned like a joke, a curse, a mirror, a glowstick, a dart; precision and point hasnt achieved this density per inch since the Roman eprigrammists of the 2nd Century. Sly,