As the train crossed the Mississippi ... culture of jazz and blues music. The poem captures the melancholy and resilience of ...

Selected by Victoria Chang By Natasha Rao Sun on my face and the train ... my own life. No resolution in any of it. Victoria Chang is a former Guggenheim fellow whose fifth book of poems ...

As the poem, “Moving Train” reveals, “Oceans in Your Lungs”, chronicles visual pointers to the vicissitudes of life: “Life is like a moving train/ A procession unwilling to stop/ It ...

Life, in all its savage beauty. The first Perillo poem I read was “The Ghost Shirt ... putting their bodies in front of a commuter train to protest the Rodney King verdict.

National poetry day is on Thursday and to ... The poet Don Paterson explained that train travel is "a metaphor for your life... the driver as god or your superego... and you can change train ...