The Catenary Press is pleased to announce the release of Robyn Schiff's Novel Influenza.
Novel Influenza
Robyn Schiff
6"x9"
$8
from NURSERY FURNITURE
from NURSERY FURNITURE
Today I am expecting a new chair.
I returned four this year
already. They were all Sand
with Sand piping and come from
a shop called The Land of Nod, where Alison
the manager who deals with me
gave me a gift certificate I am
afraid
to redeem. Wary of what dream?
Nod does mean sleep,
but only as a pun on the state
Cain
fled to after slaying
Abel—a waking sleep part
denial, part self righteous,
a neutralizing hallucination of
North Carolina I rock in-
to inhaling the off-gassing
batting, bare heels
rhythmically worrying a loose
staple behind
the rigid skirt at chair-bottom
where coarse
temporary fiber
as permeable as loose
landscape fabric partitions
against interior interior where
an involuting spring grinds the
slow industrial rattle I recorded
for
Alison and played back over
the telephone.
Robyn Schiff
is the author of Revolver (2008) and Worth (2002), both from the
University of Iowa Press. She is a professor at the University of Iowa
and co-edits Canarium Books.
