Connie
Deanovich (USA)
1960
Born
in 1960, Connie M. Deanovich received her B.A. in English at Columbia College
in Chicago in 1983 and her M.A. at DePaul University in Chicago in 1990. From
1983 to 1988 she worked as a publicity coordinator at The Poetry Center at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon receiving her M.A., she became a
full-time instructor at Kishwaukee College in Malta, Illinois and, from
1992-1993, an adjunct instructor at Elgin Community College in Elgin,
Illinois.
In 1997 she was awarded the Whiting
Writer’s Award. She had previously received a General Electric Foundation Award
for Younger Writers in 1990. In 2000 her work was anthologized in American
Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press).
In 1996, she published her first
collection of poetry, Watusi Titanic and in 1999 Zoland Books published
her Zombie Jet. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
BOOKS
OF POETRY
Watusi
Titanic
(New York: Timken Publishers, 1996); Zombie Jet (Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Zoland Books, 1999)
╬Winner
of the PIP Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry in English
2005-2006
Though
We Wanted It to Stay
the
building’s audition
was
its demolition
lit
from beneath by cop cars
an
industrial octopus squeezed it to pieces
the
orphans clustered by the pay phone
except
for the one was smoking
he
and his hat sat bow-legged
on
the steps
just
try breathing normal here
the
time is always twilight
the
assassins cold as a coin
with
a foreign hole in the middle
just
try
we
may fling out our arms
“this
is our world!”
but
the world ignores such distractions
its
machines go on fluently
like
gorgeous quick-footed doctors
and
we observe the operation
soon
behind a turquoise curtain
we’ll
need more food
something
simple on a disposable plate
a
glass of cold milk to wash it down with
a
glance at the sunflowers out back
57
yellow heads
their
seeds not yet vanished inside crows
just
try making slow go fast go slow
air
changes when it wants to
passing
from one symphony to another
like
a string of sailor’s whistles on a ship departing
massively
at first
across
the ocean that envelopes it
___
Reprinted
from New American Writing, no. 23 (2005). Copyright ©2005 by Connie M.
Deanovich.
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