Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Christine Gosnay
What does it mean to live like this, // expressing nothing that eats the mind?
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Christine Gosnay
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Christine Gosnay's first book, Even Years (Kent State University Press, 2017), won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2020, POETRY, Image Journal, AGNI, The Missouri Review, The Poetry Review, and Ecotone, and has featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. Her chapbook, The Wanderer, was the 2019 title in Beloit Poetry Journal's Chad Walsh Chapbook series. She lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California, and has a website at www.thewritechristine.com.
Total Noise and Complete Saturation
For as long as I can remember I’ve been interested, in a clinical way, in silence.
The Last Book I Loved: Hygiene and the Assassin
I enjoyed this almost in the way one would enjoy a parable cut out of a much larger, didactic, philosophical novel.