Anthony Carelli hails from Poynette, Wisconsin, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, his second collection of poems, The New World: Infinitesimal Epics, has just been published by Princeton University Press.
So isn’t it shameful that we, still unknowing, will answer with dynamite? / Monkish distraction: this quick digging the pits beneath the enormous / bearded flank,...