31.0: EPIC

Poetry Editor Ali Alizadeh
Released 1 December 2009
Index of Poems
Cover image: Eddy Burger

Our thirty-first issue was suitably gigantic, with poetry editor Ali Alizadeh selecting a wide range of epic works. Read his editorial, then check out the craziness of the sequel, POST-EPIC.




A Gifted Child

It helps to have a pedigree

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Settlement

at the moonlight splayed, shot on the dirt floor, silver and soft.

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A Day

In the gods

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Penelope’s Poet

Listen, o poet, to this marvel of the night.

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Jesus’s Ass (by way of Nietzsche)

When he enters the town–

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The Centrifuge

The valley of his youth is going slowly bald

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Medea of Melbourne

he was a beautiful thief in the night

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The Ghost of a Marriage

Joined to his guilt by bonds of matrimony

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Father’s Day

Whose guts garland the dogs of Troy / Not Patroclus'

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US Sailors on Furlough

but we must feel there is something amiss

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Epic, Untitled

(BandAid Medical 422.02)

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from ‘The Yellow Emperor Poems’

The arrival of the monsoon―

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Writing on the Wall

My head spins – the audacity of coming so close to the Gods!

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The Man Who Cried Wolf

There once was a man who lived in a house

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What For? (Epic Triad Version)

money put aside for money will money into money

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