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David Joseph Cribbin

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Retina: Literary Journal

My poem Wake has just been published in Retina: Literary Journal, edited by Julia Priest. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Retina-Litera...

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Published on November 04, 2013 12:02 • Tags: poetry

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“I was born with my eyes turned inward.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: biography, poet, poetry-life, poetry-quotes

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“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: poetry, present

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“Poetry is a beacon slicer.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: poetry

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“I was born with my eyes turned inward.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: biography, poet, poetry-life, poetry-quotes

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“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: metaphor, poetry

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“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: metaphor, poetry

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“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

tags: commonsense, prose, sense

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“Poetry is a beacon slicer.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems