Stained Glass Windows of California

Julien Poirier

Rafael Kelman, Contributor

POETRY  |  $10 $8

November 2012
OUT OF PRINT
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It’s the end of

April 2008 and John Wheeler is still alive, the

gun that killed

George Tiller

lies in pieces

Wichita fetus

remotely controlling the Sphinx’s eyes

Filip Marinovich writes about Julien Poirier, “He is a public investigator who reports openly to anybody who’ll pause and listen.” When Poirier writes, “Jehovah’s Witnesses / grouping on the sunny cracked driveway, / cyclops in forests of rosemary and juniper,” we find ourselves challenged by a weird ideal of journalistic objectivity. Facing the continuity of a Jehovah’s witness, sunlight on a driveway, and a cyclops in a forest of spices, who’s to say one is a thing more familiar than another?

About the Author

Julien Poirier was a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he co-edited the first seven issues of 6×6 and edited New York Nights newspaper from 2001 to 2006. He lives in California with his wife and daughters.

About the Contributor

Publication Details

32 pp, 7.5 x 11 in
Publication Date: November 15 2012