Meredith Quartermain reads Margaret Christakos

Sina Queyras's Lemon Hound blog hosts Meredith Quartermain reading the narrative layering of 'Queen,' a poem from Margaret Christakos's latest collection, What Stirs.

From the post:

'[Christakos] once commented to me that narrative is a wonderful form precisely because you can stretch its envelope to include all sorts of other material; “Queen” is a good example of this... [Sordid] images are startlingly mingled with sensual, erotically suggestive words like “cleavage” “mound” “thigh” and “nipped,” which jostle against the surface narrative of cuts and the elegant form of the poem, its stately couplets so befitting a queen.'

Visit the blog to read on: http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2008/11/meredith-quartermain-reads-margaret.html