The Last Time As We Are HC - Hardcover

Mali, Taylor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0982148879 ISBN 13: 9780982148877

Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

You don't need a classroom to be a teacher, and you don't need to be a teacher to help someone learn a lesson. Taylor Mali's poetry explores this truth in entertaining and plainspoken ways because "the last thing this world needs is another poem" ("The Call to What We Know"). Whether discussing the language of love or the love of language, the poems contained in The Last Time As We Are prove that "He who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

About this title

About the Author:

Taylor Mali was one of the original poets to appear on the HBO series Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. The author of two collections of poetry, What Learning Leaves and The Last Time As We Are, his work has appeared in anthologies and other publications including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, The Idiot's Guide to Slam Poetry, Spoken Word Revolution, The Tampa Review, Pank, Taj Mahal Review, Cadillac Cicatrix, Spindle, and Paddlefish. He runs the Page Meets Stage reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. For more information, visit www.taylormali.com.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

THE LAST TIME AS WE ARE

Because later that morning

the surgeon would cut me

four times, twice on each side,

once on the outside

and once on the inside,

leaving me with nothing

but tiny scars, and I would,

in a few months' time,

be able to be inside you

with nothing - not worry,

nor latex - I kissed you awake

when it was still dark,

and you opened to me,

and we made love

for the last time as we are,

as God made us,

which is to say,

as God made me.

Someday soon,

I will never be a father.

About this edition

• Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0982148879
• ISBN 13: 9780982148877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124