Andrew Saavedra’s “From the Temple Priapus”
Here, friends, is precisely the opening salvo you want to see from a new literary glossy. What has Lockjaw published in Andrew …
January 2015
Meeting Nelly Sachs
Walking the various neighborhoods of Seattle two years ago, I discovered Open Books, a marvelous little dragon’s cave of all-poetry. First thing …
‘ . . . What happens when a human being reads or, as I should prefer to put it, is read to by a poem? What happens is that he receives a perhaps comprehensible message from the dark heart of things. For when the heart of things is subjected to the formal interrogation of the poet it is, to precisely that degree, dominated or subjugated by the courage that puts the question. It is made to confess.
—George Barker
