Magma want your clothes (poems...)
"In the introduction to her anthology of clothes poems Out of Fashion (Faber,
2004), Carol Ann Duffy wrote ’[these poems] examine, in their different
ways, how we dress or undress, how we cover up or reveal, and how
clothes, fashion and jewellery are both a necessary and luxurious, a
practical and sensual, a liberating and repressing part of our lives. I
hope that the anthology forms an entertaining dialogue between the two
arts of poetry and fashion’.This push and pull between cover up and
revelation, necessity and luxury is what we’d like to see in your
clothes poems for Magma 56, whether you’re writing about dress uniforms
or haute couture, morning suits or suits of armour. Tell us about your
little black dresses and your lucky pants, your wedding dresses and
your weeding gloves and we’ll send the best of your poems down the
catwalk of Magma 56.
The deadline is 28 February 2013.
This is one of my favorite clothes poems at the moment, found at Poets.org
What do women want | |||||
| by Kim Addonizio | |||||
I want a red dress. I want it flimsy and cheap, I want it too tight, I want to wear it until someone tears it off me. I want it sleeveless and backless, this dress, so no one has to guess what's underneath. I want to walk down the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store with all those keys glittering in the window, past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly, hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders. I want to walk like I'm the only woman on earth and I can have my pick. I want that red dress bad. I want it to confirm your worst fears about me, to show you how little I care about you or anything except what I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment from its hanger like I'm choosing a body to carry me into this world, through the birth-cries and the love-cries too, and I'll wear it like bones, like skin, it'll be the goddamned dress they bury me in.
4 comments:
I'm going to write a poem about underpants.
Maybe it will be the start of something Peadar - there's so much poetry in underpants - a whole sequence, a book, a series of books... a play, a monologue, a theatrical feast :)
Now that's a poem about a dress!! Thank you! take care
x
I wrote a poem about my favourite dress once ... it was published in Envoi, I think. It was a terza rima as I recall and pretty good ... sadly I haven't written any poems for years now :( Must get back into it :)
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