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Asheville Poetry Review
Published twice a year.
Subscriptions: $13 for a single issue, $22.50 for two issues.
Asheville Poetry Review
c/o Keith Flynn
PO Box 7086
Asheville, NC 28802
Submission Guidelines:
Send 3-6 poems of any length or style with a self-addressed stamped envelope and biographical information. Deadlines, January 15 and July 15.
Conversation with Li Po on the Nature of Existence
You said goodbye...
and I was left watching the river
flowing gently into heaven.
-- Li Po, "Saying Goodbye"
From where does your knowledge come?
the Yellow Crane Pavilion swoop of swallows black thistledown
Why do you speak like an oracle?
a thousand miles of frozen sky the land of Chu cloud-ghosts see
Does the world know enough of love?
an aging scholar in excile wide, blank night too old to climb terraces
What do you know of death?
rice-paper wall curve of clear rivers lonely sail, a knife in water
Where should we go from here?
banished immortals of Ch'ang-an green hill pushing up through stars
What is the meaning of it all?
nothing left but song hock a wedding ring for wine wagons clang
Reprinted courtesy of the Asheville Poetry Review,
Vol. 8, #1, Spring 2001
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