Poetry. Nicole Brodsky won the 1998 Michael Rubin Award for her first book, getting word. Her work has appeared in Arshile, Crack, Coracle, FOURTEEN HILLS, and Transfer: "if it be natural / is a real Beauty // playing on the same letter / or, rather, the same sound // a system of writing in which / a system of dots, dashes and spaces // Braille says to Morse: dot / Morse answers Braille: space // the signal sounds read by touch / answered by alphabets of notes / one rhyming with the other // the memory of string on finger / to be marked // by any smallish glyph, a glyph, again / finger and a word for this // words, the callused hands of love to kiss / the dusty bones of love to play // to read the face of music / read to me again // sing again."—from the poem "alliteration"
Saddlestapled chapbook.