SELF-EFFACEMENT
Walk slowly
For the road is far away
One racing in panic will be troubled
Within self-effacement
Bailing out
“Pleasure”
Weaving the boundless dreams of objects at rest!
Like a painter
Living a penniless life
Act up to splendor
To the flash of overly animalistic emotions
People are taken ill for.
—Hirato Renkichi (translated from the Japanese by Sho Sugita)
I tremble like the floor / when the subway groans / through the earth.
Jeffrey Joe Nelson
Poems by Jon Boisvert, Ana Martins Marques (translated from the Portuguese by Elisa Wouk Almino), Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Denise Newman, Anzhelina Polonskaya (translated from the Russian by Andrew Wachtel), and Hirato Renkichi (translated from the Japanese by Sho Sugita).
6×6 magazine included 6 poets in each issue.
6×6 was supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
ISSN: 1553-9459
The poetry journal 6x6 … showcases the work of six poets (none of whom I’ve previously heard of) … I was immediately struck by the subversive, surreal and downright odd prose-pieces by Jon Boisvert, and his pieces in this issue are reminiscent of poems by Canadian poets Stuart Ross and Gary Barwin for their twists and turns in and out of surrealism and strange wisdom.
Rob McLennan
Chapbook
Rubber Band Binding. 52 pp, 7 x 7 in
Publication Date: July 01 2014
Distribution: Direct Only
Series: 6x6 #30