10 Questions for Bojan Louis | Mass Review
we umbilicus to Earth. .54 mm bullets light up our backs, exit our bellies Pre-K: St. Michaels, AZ. Nuns, black scapular and white cowl, shunt milk-blood prayers down constricted throats; gurgling cramped bellies. —from "Ghazal VI," Volume 61, Issue 4 Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote. Something that initially comes to mind is a poem I wrote in high school about payphones changing from 25 cents to 35 five cents. I think I was trying to be funny or ironic, but the piece was sort of long with a rhymey and ecstatic cadence, unmetered lines. I have no idea what other themes or ima...
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