Michael Kriesel’s “Aleister Crowley Lipogram”

When I read “Aleister Crowley Lipogram” yesterday in the North American Review, all I could say was “perfect,” and not just because Kriesel’s poem is so playful with erasure, including erasure of the underlying narrative. It is evocative of all the promises that the occult, the mythic, the mystical, the poetic make. It reminds us of why I “stray.” The poem received The 2015 James Hearst Poetry Prize. https://northamericanreview.wordpress.com/james-hearst-poetry-prize/