Raven Hotel | Kathryn Pratt Russell x 30 author discount

Kathryn Pratt Russell is a poet who grew up as a military brat in the American South, England, and the Philippines. She teaches literary studies at Clayton State University near Atlanta. She has published poems, essays, and reviews in Gargoyle, Black Warrior Review, Disappointed Housewife, Studies in Romanticism, American Book Review, Studies in English Literature, and elsewhere.    Baudelaire's Watery Grave Rig-tackle ho and tourists drift away,The not-so-picturesque jetty fallingBack as broad-keeled the boat on grayTides balances far above the swelling,Shrinking Portuguese men-of-warThat glint up at acquisitive children.Women and men with pendant tits ignoreThe ocean cache: their light stomachs turn inThe boat’s belly as the steersman slantsToward the massive rock thrown off the coast.What will you do, picaresque jaunters,When on the metamorphic sides of that wastedIsland appears the form, the sloped shoulder,Dappled skin, and eye without pupil?Minute hairs and whiskers sting the bou