Poem of the Week | April 23, 2013
Darren Morris: "Fear of the Either/Or"
This week we’re featuring a poem from our brand new “ladder” issue, the Spring Editor’s Prize 36.1. Darren Morris’s poems have appeared in journals including The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, 32 Poems, Tongue: A Journal of Writing and Art, New England Review, and Raritan. His fiction was awarded a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and his short story “The Weight of the World” won the 2011 Just Desserts Prize from Passages North.
Author’s Note:
Three of the poems are based on strange new fears that I’ve experienced since I started along the disappearing path of conception by technological means. Its failure presented and continues to present a different kind of future for my wife and me, and we are not quite out of wanting that other thing. It’s an absurd form of loss because it’s about losing what was never ours. Those poems simply explore what it means to persevere even when we know we will not persist. They are not about the fear of death but the fear of obliteration.
Fear of the Either/Or
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