Summer Evening, by Amorak Huey |
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When it’s nice out like this all we talk about is how it’s nice out as if surprised things for once are tolerable even pleasant or perhaps we merely want to seem capable of gratitude like when Kurt Cobain died and defending my taste to a critic/friend I proclaimed Kurt Cobain “a musical genius” not that I know anything about music or genius but because taking a stand felt important in that moment a way to say see I am listening to the beauty such a twilight offers, a way to say I am still alive. |
Amorak Huey’s fourth book of poems is Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (Diode, 2021), Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.