AMORAK HUEY
Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024).
apparently my body is a city
like all cities it was once new and small and made sense
like all cities it evolved over the ages
Every poem is an elegy. I believe this entirely. I also think it’s inherent to poetry that a poem is aware of its own mortality…The human condition is a perpetual state of moving through grief, dealing with loss, distracting ourselves from pain. We know we are going to die. To persist despite that seems impossible, and yet it’s what we do. That contradiction — that’s poetry.
July 7, 2024