September 5, 2013
Bough Down
Editor’s note: More than four years after her husband’s suicide, Karen Green has put together a transcendent book about surviving him. Aesthetically, it’s as good as anything. Formally, it’s like nothing else, with a brilliant mixture of art and prose poetry. We’ve excerpted below the book’s beginning — including its cover, a work of art in itself — and we’re also reproducing some images from “How On Earth,” a series of paintings Green made in which text from the book is a part of the landscape. —Adam Plunkett
How on Earth
Big Enough
The Sun Is Downing
Whose Woods These
There Is No Refuge in Architecture
At Last the Gradual Light
All images courtesy of Siglio Press and © Karen Green.
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By Karen Green
Karen Green, an artist, has a virtual gallery called “Beautiful Crap” (beautifulcrap.com). Bough Down is her first book of poems, published by Siglio Press. She was married to David Foster Wallace at the time of his death, in September 2008.
