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Sarah Best

Sarah Best

July 31, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Sarah Best‘s poems have appeared in The Yale Review. She’s an alumna of New York University. She’s an artist and writer who lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin with her fiancé Daniel and rambunctious tabby cat named Daisy.

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Sarah Best: Extended Takes and Long Shots

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Watching The Master Builder the other day, I was struck by the long stretches of total unconsciousness on the part of the main character. Filled with long exposures of trees and light, scenes shot on a train, distract from his Faustian struggles. On Wednesday night I’m seeing you, I’ve got one foot here and here’s […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Sarah Best

Sarah Best: Narcissus

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

“Leanness shrivels up her skin,              and all her lovely features melt.”                        Ovid   Narcissus lingers, sighs— “How soft you are,” stroking. In this daily veneration, I enlist a stalwart humectant from the drugstore. The timing circumscribed, you must […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Sarah Best

Sarah Best: Echo

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

             “Nothing remains               except her bones and voice.”                        Ovid     I’ve chosen quilted combat boots, for the waiting room today, camo pants in a soft palette of grays, an alert-red t-shirt whose neckline gently scoops around the anniversary necklace. They’ve mailed a […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Sarah Best

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