Rattle #51 (Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2016Feminist Issue) by Timothy Green

Rattle #51 (Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2016Feminist Issue) Reviews

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  Meg Tuite

  Rattle is, in my opinion, the best poetry lit magazine out there! Get a subscription and find out!
  Timothy Green never misses with the powerful beauties in each issue!
  #51 is a particular favorite because of its theme. I have been inspired by each and every poem in this issue! WOW! I am going to give you a few stanzas of one poem by Heather Bell titled 'While Trying to Write a Novel'
  "I take a bath. I fill the bathtub with a face and
  a voice. I fill the bathtub with a man on a bicycle.
  The man on a bicycle is you and I allow November
  to kill him. Or, a dog runs after the man, biting at
  his brown shoes until I fall out of the bathtub.
  
  While trying to write a novel, I ache as I smoke
  a cigar. I smoke cigars to forget you. I load the
  dishwasher. I load the dishwasher with a global
  village, let you walk through the village right before
  
  it is bombed. I sit on the countertop and say
  nothing. Your body and skin looks like what is
  always taken away. It is only a body. It is only
  a body. My therapist tells me to meditate on
  sentences, which will help release them from me..."
  
  Get a copy! Get a subscription! Unparalleled and powerful! LOVE!
• 
  Amy

  May Day. All of the poems, the Maggie Nelson interview. And always May Day.