[OutVoice] EQUAL TO THE EARTH - poems by Jee Leong Koh

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EQUAL TO THE EARTH
Poems by Jee Leong Koh

Review by Robert Urban, Urban Productions, NYC
full review published at: http://roberturban.com/equaltotheearthreview.html

"Koh as a poet understands art & sex as forces that both come from the same 
dark, inner, hard-to-grasp place. He is that kind of artist   - ever struggling 
within eternal, pulsar-like oscillations... between the Dionysian temptations 
of creating sex and the studied, Appolonian thoughtfulness of creating poetry 
about sex. Koh lives and writes in that space created by the tug between the 
two. EQUAL TO THE EARTH is one of his results." - ru

"I clean the common bathroom not cleaned for weeks,
but the grinning toilet bowl is a loser's trophy.
I'm craving dully for the next hit, the bang of sex
or the wham of sounds transposing into an image.

In the interval between sex and poetry lies death.
The freshman intuits that. Which is why he begs
for the gloved fist to enter him again and again."
- Jee Leong Koh

Jee Leong Koh appeared at Urban Productions' recent poetry event at Pisces 
Cafe, L.I. celebrating National Coming Out Day.  EQUAL TO THE EARTH is published 
by POETS WEAR PRADA, Hoboken, NJ. Jee Leong Koh is the author of Payday Loans
. His poetry has appeared in the Best New Poets 2007 and Best Gay Poetry 2008 
anthologies, and was nominated in 2008 for the Pushcart Prize. Born in 
Singapore, he now lives in New York City, and blogs at Song of a Reformed Headhunter
 (http://jeeleong.blogspot.com).




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