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La Sandia - Lone Tree
- Address:
8419 Park Meadows Center Dr.
Lone Tree, CO 80124Neighborhood:
Highlands Ranch / Lone Tree
- Cuisine:
MexicanPrice: $30 and under
La Sandia - Lone Tree
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://www.richardsandoval.com/lasandiapm/
- Phone: 3035865511x
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch - Daily 11:00am-4:00pm;
Dinner - Daily 4:00pm-close;
Brunch - Sunday 11:00am-2:00pm
Happy Hour - Daily 4:00pm-close at the Tequila Bar and Lounge
- Payment Options: AMEX,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Entertainment, Fireplace, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Happy Hour, Non-Smoking Area, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Smoking Area, View, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Catering: Private and semi-private areas available for groups of all sizes. Both reception or seated dinner options are available with customized menus and full bar capabilities.
- Private Party Facilities: At La Sandia, Chef Richard Sandoval enhances Mexican cooking with the finest authentic and local market ingredients. We offer a variety of spaces that make for an ideal setting to host your upcoming event.
- Private Party Contact: Jennie Dendorfer: email@example.com 8775884533
- Special Events: Great spaces for all types of events, including: corporate events, receptions, rehearsal dinners, bachelor/bachelorette parties, holiday parties, and anniversaries. Richard Sandoval Restaurants has a variety of spaces, customized menus, and full bar options available in our 5 Denver area restaurants – enjoy our terrace views, versatile indoor & outdoor spaces, central/walking distance to convention center, and discounted or complimentary valet. With in-house event planners, who have access to all of our restaurants, we will simplify the planning process for any group.
A word from La Sandia - Lone Tree
Modern Mexican Cuisine . Tequila Bar . Year-Round Rooftop Tequila LoungeContinued
At La Sandia, internationally acclaimed Chef Richard Sandoval uses innovative culinary techniques and fresh, local ingredients to raise authentic Mexican recipes to new heights. Enjoy Chef Sandoval's modern Mexican flavors with selections from our Tequila Bar - we offer over 100 varieties of tequila, as well as handcrafted margaritas. Warm, Latin-inspired service will round out your experience at La Sandia.
Please note that, due to extremely high demand, we are not able to take reservations for rooftop or patio seating. Rooftop and patio seating are available on a first come, first serve basis.
We look forward to seeing you at La Sandia. Buen provecho y salud!
At La Sandia, internationally acclaimed Chef Richard Sandoval uses innovative culinary techniques and fresh, local ingredients to raise authentic Mexican recipes to new heights. Enjoy Chef Sandoval's modern Mexican flavors with selections from our Tequila Bar - we offer over 100 varieties of tequila, as well as handcrafted margaritas. Warm, Latin-inspired service will round out your experience at La Sandia.
Please note that, due to extremely high demand, we are not able to take reservations for rooftop or patio seating. Rooftop and patio seating are available on a first come, first serve basis.
We look forward to seeing you at La Sandia. Buen provecho y salud!
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Awards voted by OpenTable diners
- Diners' Choice WinnerScenic View
- Diners' Choice WinnerMexican
La Sandia - Lone Tree - Best Restaurants in Highlands Ranch / Lone Tree ›
La Sandia - Lone Tree reviews from OpenTable diners
72 reviews since June 4, 2014
- Food4.1Service3.9
- Ambiance3.9Noise LevelModerate
great for outdoor dining (36)good for groups (32)scenic view (27)great for lunch (19)fit for foodies (19)special occasion (15)kid-friendly (14)vibrant bar scene (11)neighborhood gem (11)hot spot (10)romantic (10)great for brunch (7)late-night find (4)notable wine list (1)Show More
- Great as usual, I highly recommend!MikeDined on 9/16/2014Great view on the deck, grat service and great food. Will definitely come backSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Terrible FoodOpenTable Diner Since 2007VIPDined on 9/14/2014La Sandia Lone Tree is TERRIBLE. We ALL had stomach aches for 2 days...the view is awesome from the deck, the food is HORRENDOUS. Guacamole had NO taste, tortillas are STALE, wrong food brought out, "tacos" are not crisp, they are stale corn tortillas. Will NOT be going back to this location. La Sandia Stapleton is fabulous...will only be going to that location from now on...
- Okay overallEager2eatDined on 9/13/2014My wife and I went to La Sandia for date night. The service was okay and the food was okay. Nothing super to write home about but not terrible, either. The chips and guacamole were great. The food was hot when it came out. I wouldn't order my meal again (chili rellenos, tamale and chicken enchilada).I would recommend this to a friend.
- Delicious As AlwaysDenverFoodiesDined on 9/5/2014My wife and I had some co-workers in town from out of state and decided this would be a fun place to go for dinner. Other than being a little loud, the energy was good and the good was excellent as expected. We will continue to bring people here for tequila flights and modern Mexican cuisine.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Disappointed....GloriaDined on 8/31/2014This was our first visit to this restaurant (Sunday, 8/31 at 7 pm), and my husband and I are big fans of Mexican food. However, it took nearly 15 minutes before a waiter came to our table. We ordered guacamole as an appetizer, which the waiter prepares at the table. However, he had a difficult time because as he said - the avocados weren't very ripe. When we received our food, my grilled tacos were cold. I didn't bother to send it back because our waiter (Brian) was busy with other tables (although the inside of the restaurant wasn't that busy). There were four of us for dinner; 3 of us had one cocktail and 1 had 2 beers, and our tab was $100, $120 w/tip! Drinks were about $10! Very pricey for average food. Won't be returning there.Special Features:
- Poor Service, Decent FoodeatingslcDined on 8/30/2014My wife and I went to this restaurant to try it out, we've never had good luck with service in any of the Park Meadows area restaurants, and that trend held up here. The service was very slow and inattentive, we got the wrong drinks each time we ordered a drink. They use the method of having someone other than your server deliver food and drinks so they don't know what they should have been. Also the drinks all have Spanish names that the servers can't pronounce so you're not even sure if you got the right stuff. The food was decent, but nothing to write home about, it all came out cold (even the fajitas). We will be sticking with Hacienda Colorado for our Mexican food in the Lone Tree area.
- Good Food with some Mexican taste.julfuentVIPDined on 8/28/2014This is a good restaurant the food is good and it has some Mexican taste in some dishes. The only bad thing is that the service is usually very slow.Special Features:
- Outstanding ServiceDisappointedDined on 8/25/2014Really good mango mojitos. Great fajitas and tacos. Even better service.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- It was okayOkayDined on 8/21/2014We went for a birthday (and included this info in our reservation) and requested to sit upstairs. We had reservations at 6 pm and when we arrived we were told it was an hour wait for upstairs. Our waiter wasn't great. He didn't get refills, offer more Margs or dessert and no mention of the birthday. The margaritas were below average, but the food was really good.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Fresh, healthy Mexican foodjoviolinDined on 8/11/2014Love this restaurant! This food is always high-quality, delicious, and artfully served. I love any of the "chili-fest" main dishes, as well as the fresh guac, salsa, refried black beans, and soups. Every item I've ever ordered is delicious. The interior of the restaurant is beautiful, making it a great place to relax for either lunch or dinner during a day of power shopping at Park Meadows!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 8/6/2014Food was great. We had wanted to sit outside but it was raining, so we sat inside near the bar. It was so noisy that our party of four felt like we had to shout at each other to hear what we were saying.Special Features:
- Guac!AC77VIPDined on 8/5/2014Table side guac is great, and the food is an interesting approach to mexican dining.Special Features:
- AWESOME!BirthdayBashersDined on 7/29/2014Loved the table side guacamole, and the different entrees on the menu. Fast efficient service, very friendly wait staff. Awesome salsa, awesome meal! Will surely be returning in the near future! Recommended by some wonderful friends, they were right in saying it was the best restaurant around!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Key Menu Item Cut!!!JohnVIPDined on 7/25/2014We have always gone to La Sandia for their scrumptious huitlacoche soup, totally delicious beyond description. Then a few years back the huitlacoche was removed from the soup and it was just called something like "corn soup". Not as good but still delicious. When we went the other night, it was off the menu altogether! It was the one thing that really made us pick La Sandia over other Mexican/Southwest cuisine restaurants. We're happy to see that at least the corn soup has remained on the downtown Tamayo Restaurant (part of this organization). But with that item gone, we're likely to go to La Sandia very much any more. Fine food for the most part, and good to go to if you're in the neighborhood.
- A nice dinner!mkemmDined on 7/19/2014I made reservations through Open Table for six of us (including one child). The staff were friendly, our server was attentive and customer-centric, and the food was delicious. The atmosphere was definitely on the loud (although fun) side - I had to strain to hear people across the table from me (and I'm not hard-of-hearing). The manager (Mike?) came over to introduce himself, and overall, we had a good dinner. The price was also reasonable - our bill was less than $75 for five adults and one child. I would absolutely return here!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Food was fine-ishPinkPrincessWinnerVIPDined on 7/11/2014The food was fine but pretty greasy. The wait staff seemed very new and untrained.
- Try the patio in the summerFoodCriticVIPDined on 7/1/2014La Sandia has a great location - perched high above everything else at Park Meadows. Great views from the patio in the summertime. Food is pretty good - definitely not memorable - but lots of great tequila choice.I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great FooddineoutDined on 6/27/2014I selected one of the dinner Trios, tamale, enchilada and chile releno. Food had just the right amount of spices. very good margarita and the churros were a good after dinner treat.Special Features:
- Good food, too loud.EatOutMoreDined on 6/27/2014If you don't want to battle to hear the conversation, ask to sit in the back of the restaurant. We were seated near the front windows in the bar area at a small 2 person table. Conversation required us to lean in to the center of our small table. Skip the table side guacamole. We ordered the medium level of spice and it was pretty bland. Additional salt helped but it needed more onion and some minced peppers. Steak tacos and lettuce wrap chicken tacos were very good. The side of smokey salsa with the steak tacos was perfect.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Go For the Viewjoeclimb14ersDined on 6/26/2014This was our first time and I took my date because I knew the view would not disappoint and it didn't. The fajita dish was the worst I have had and the waiter seemed annoyed because it was our first time and we were not in a hurry.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- SherrySherryDined on 6/23/2014Excellent food is what you always receive when you dine at one of Richard Sandoval's restaurant!Special Features:
- Unusual ServiceScottinAuroraVIPDined on 6/22/2014This restaurant is a staple of ours. We had uncharacteristically poor service while dining on the deck on a Sunday evening, but as always, the food was top notch.Special Features:
- Awesomeleroi333Dined on 6/15/2014Incredible place for Father's Day Brunch. Great table made guacamole and incredible brunch specials.Special Features:
- Fathers Day BrunchKF13Dined on 6/15/2014We had a fantastic brunch at La Sandia, the food was amazing, better than I've remembered it. The mole on my omelet was delicious. A great place to eat.Special Features:
- Great food!NewbieDined on 6/14/2014Love guac-fest and the fish tacos! Good atmosphere and nice view. Gets pretty busy though so be prepared to wait if you don't have a reservation.Special Features:
- BoomerDined on 6/14/2014The food and margaritas where excellent. The service was not spot on. We had to flag down someone twice for assistance.Special Features:
- Celebration LunchLC02Dined on 6/5/2014Really enjoyed the guacamole sampler.. the burrito was huge! Lots of creative selections to choose from..Special Features:
- The following 670 reviews are from the La Sandia - Lone Tree reviews archive.
- jspsjspsVIPDined on 5/31/2014food and drinks are always good. Sometimes the service is not up to the level I would expectSpecial Features:
- Servicejonny5aliveVIPDined on 5/30/2014One of the best service we've had in awhile. My wife accidentally spelled her mojito and our waiter did not hesitate to replace it, we don't see that in a lot of places. He's co-workers were very considerate with anything that we needed.Special Features:
- Great MexicanOpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 5/30/2014We love La Sandia. Its our go to Mexican restaurant in south Denver. We always take out of town guests. Originally from California, the food reminds me of the fresh Mexican restaurants out there. Not the smothered mess you usually get in Colorado. The margaritas are amazing, and the best around.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Festive AtmosphereDiningDivaDined on 5/16/2014Very festive spot, but if you're looking for a place to converse, catch up and actually hear every word that your dining partner is saying, it's simply too noisy for that. However, this is the perfect venue for happy hour and/or a tasty dinner. I am hoping that the live bands on the open deck will come back during the summer months.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good food, average service, coldSunnyDined on 5/11/2014Title says it all. It was good except the kids menu is a bit basic and we had to keep our jackets on while dining as it was so cold inside.Special Features:
- LuvDinnerDatesDined on 5/10/2014Not a great place if you want in and out. This is the second time I was there with a party of 6 and the service was lacking. Took FOREVER to take our orders and get our food. Felt neglected. Was there twice as long as we wante to be.
- Just OKHudsonsDined on 5/5/2014Had a reservation for 7:00 PM but had to wait 10 minutes for the staff to get a table ready. There were a number of open tables so not sure what the issue was here. The food was great but the service was just OK. We have been going here for a number of years and the restaurant has fallen off some in the last year or two.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Not that impressedanteaterlisaDined on 5/3/2014We used to love this place but now thinking it is no longer worth the drive. Table side guac should mean true table side preparation. What they did is bring a bowl with the ingredients already in it and show it to us and then mix it. It wasn't mixed up enough and we had no opportunity to ask for more of a particular ingredient - which is the only reason why you would want table side prep in the first place. I don't think there was any lime in it - which is my fave ingredient. They weren't busy at all so this seemed like plain laziness, and I was disappointed. The beef tacos were inedible - the meat was very tough. On the good side the veggies quesadillas were as good as always. Not sure I will be back here.
- Good Food. Loud Atmosphere.GigerDined on 5/2/2014La Sandia is generally good food and the service is always friendly, with the exception of the front desk girls (they need some work). Their guac is really tasty and so is their salsa! Their drinks are strong and quite good. The food is usually very good, however, this time the carne asada was not good at all (in fact the last 2 times it has been pretty bad), so I do not recommend getting that. But do try their tacos and enchiladas because those are quite tasty!Special Features:
- Great for date nightSteveDined on 5/2/2014Be sure to make reservations because this place gets busy. It's easy to drop some coin at this place but the food is well worth it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- La Sandia reviewOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 4/30/2014the food was delicious better than typical Mexican The service was outstanding We would certainly dine at La Sandia againSpecial Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2005VIPDined on 4/27/2014We always enjoy coming here. This time the waiter was slow, didn't apologize when he sloshed beans all over the rest of the food, and brought the guacamole right before the food came. Usually it's much better service.Special Features:
- Dining out for lifedeboVIPDined on 4/24/2014Thanks for supporting Project Angel Heart. Your Restaurant had a great turnout. Thanks so much.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.


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Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan fondly remembers his last trip to San Diego.
As a rookie, he led the Falcons to a 22-16 victory over the Chargers on Nov. 30, 2008, at Qualcomm Stadium.
He tossed a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Harry Douglas to put the Falcons up 22-13 with 14:56 left to play in the fourth quarter. He completed 17 of 23 passes for 207 yards and two touchdowns and finished with a quarterback rating of 130.2.
Here's a brief Q&A involving Ryan and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's D. Orlando Ledbetter.
Q: What concerns you about San Diego's defense?
A: Their front seven is very good. They've got two defensive ends in their 3-4 scheme. Jarret Johnson and Shaun Phillips are really good players. They have some talented guys on the back end like [Eric] Weedle. I think he led the league in interceptions last year. They have two corners that can play in [Antoine] Cason and [Quentin] Jammer. They are a talented bunch.
Q: How is Takeo Spikes playing in the middle of their defense?
A: He's a veteran guy. He's physical and is very good at coming down and snuffing out the run. He's really smart, and it looks like he gets all of those guys on the same page on film. He's one of those salty veteran guys that is just very good at what he does.
Q: What will be the key to run the ball on that stingy defense?
A: I think, first and foremost, identifying what they do up front correctly. They give you a lot of different looks. They bring a lot of different guys in their fire-zone packages. Identifying what they are doing and getting into the right plays will be important.
One of the trademarks of San Diego coach Norv Turner's offenses — dating to his days in Dallas with Jay Novacek in the early 1990s — is that the tight end is heavily involved.
Last week in a 38-10 rout of Tennessee, tight end Dante Rosario caught three touchdowns passes for the Chargers, who carry four tight ends on their roster. In addition to Rosario, they have Antonio Gates, Randy McMichael and rookie Ladarius Green.
While wide receiver Malcolm Floyd is quarterback Philip Rivers' top target, the tight end remains key, and that makes Falcons safety William Moore the X-factor for this game.
"In that offense, they use their tight ends a lot," Moore said. "Then at the same time, they've got gifted tight ends. They are fast, and they are strong. They run great routes. Gates, I never played him before, but I've heard nothing but great things about his game."
Rosario has mainly been a backup with Carolina (2007-10), Miami (2011) and Denver (2011). Before last week, he had five career touchdown catches.
"He's running great routes," Moore said. "He doing a great job. He's matured from his days with Carolina. He's looking like a great tight end."
Gates, when healthy, is a great tight end. He returned to practice from a rib injury and could be available Sunday.
"He's a go-to guy," Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez said of Gates. "When you see defenses go against him, they put two guys on him like he's a gunner on the punt-coverage team because that's how good he is. That's what he demands. If you give him one-on-one coverage, or if you think you cannot account for him, he's going to kill you."
Falcons wide receivers coach Terry Robiskie has told receiver Julio Jones that he must think that when
the football is in the air that it's like $1 million, and he has to come down with it.
Jones, the second-year sensation, had a chance to help put the Falcons up by two touchdowns early against the Broncos on Monday night, but he let the $1 million hit the turf.
"I still have to step up and make those plays when they present themselves because everybody is counting on me," said Jones, who's on the hot seat to stop his dropped passes. "I just have to step up in that situation and make that play."
Jones has 10 catches for 124 yards and two touchdowns. He has three drops, according to ESPN Stats and Information.
After catching six passes for 108 yards and two touchdowns against the Chiefs in the season opener, Jones saw double coverage from Denver.
"They stayed with a [two-man] shell," Jones said. "It's kind of hard to have a big game against [two-man] shell and everything. Roddy [White] stepped up and did a great job for us, and Tony [Gonzalez] did as well."
While Denver locked up Jones, White and Gonzalez combined for 15 catches for 172 yards and two touchdowns.
Jones doesn't know what to expect from the Chargers.
"When we play people, we have to go out there and adjust," Jones said. "A lot of people don't have three receivers, including Tony, that they have to match up against. We have to go out there and continue to keep playing."
Falcons defensive coordinator Mike Nolan and Chargers coach Norv Turner have been coaching BFFs.
They worked together in 2006, with Turner serving as Nolan's offensive coordinator when he was San Francisco's head coach.
Nolan served as Turner's defensive coordinator with the Washington Redskins from 1997-99 when Turner was the head coach.
"Mike's been in the league a long time, as well as coach Turner, so they've probably had a number of battles where they've been against each other and they've been on the same side and sat in staff rooms," Falcons coach Mike Smith said. "There's going to be some familiarity in terms of what Mike knows and what coach Turner knows."
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San Diego's run defense is stout.
Nose tackle Aubrayo Franklin sets the tone by demanding double-team blocks. In the Chargers' 3-4 scheme, Franklin then frees up inside linebackers Takeo Spikes and Donald Butler to run to the ball carriers.
They held Oakland's Darren McFadden to 32 yards on 15 carries and Tennessee's Chris Johnson to 17 yards on eight carries.
The Falcons have struggled to run this season and don't appear to have a good matchup against San Diego's defense, which has allowed only 41 rushing yards per game, best in the NFL. The Falcons have rushed for 75.5 yards per game, 26th in the league.
"We're going to keep handing it off," right tackle Tyson Clabo said. "We are going to keep running the ball. I think that we have the personnel to have a good running game."
The Falcons spent a great deal of time working on their passing attack this offseason. Some contend they forget about their vaunted rushing attack, which has had a 1,300-yard rusher [Michael Turner] in three of the past four years.
"We didn't have a lack of focus on it at all," Clabo said. "I can't put my finger on anything specific, but I think we can run the football, and we're going to continue to try."
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September 21st, 2012
5:33 am
First !!!
September 21st, 2012
5:41 am
This game will be decided by special teams play. Falcons 24-Chargers 30.Our team is banged up and our bench is suspect. We are weak at stopping the long return. I believe in the Falcons. Rise Up…..
September 21st, 2012
5:56 am
Elvis, you must not believe to much. What's up with that score prediction. Come on man! Falcons are playing the way they are needing to play The D will step up and put Rivers where he belongs. Go birds. Falcons – 37 Where's Diego – 17
Question. How's SeeNThisBefore doing? LMAO
September 21st, 2012
6:06 am
I'll take a 2-0 start anyday, but the facts are that the Falcons have 14 games remaining to find a running game, or they aren't going to do anything in the playoffs. It doesn't look good this week against a stout Chargers front seven, but then again that's why they play the game.
September 21st, 2012
6:08 am
Also, can someone explain to me the rule concerning TD receptions??? In the field of play, if you catch the ball and it becomes dislodged because you hit the ground, it's considered a catch, correct?? As in the ground can't cause a fumble??
Yet the same doesn't hold true in the end zone??? Julio Jones caught that pass and only AFTER he hit the ground did the ball come loose. This "maintaining possession of the ball" is absolutely garbage. That was a TD. I've seen a number of players robbed of TD receptions because of that stupid rule. They need to change it during the offseason, IMHO.
September 21st, 2012
7:31 am
The Falcon will be ready for the challenge Sunday. I have a lot of confidence that Turner will try to make a statement and will make the most of his opportunities to run and catch the ball. The Charger will have they hands full with trying to cover our receivers. I have no concerns about Julio. He will make an example out of someone. If I had one concern, it would be our defensive backfield. Dunta is underperforming as usual and we are weak on opposite side. We will need a pass rush. This game will come down to turnovers, but the Falcon have the edge and will bring home a victory.
September 21st, 2012
7:48 am
I love the way Ryan always has good things – sincerely stated – about opponents. That's class.
September 21st, 2012
7:49 am
BTW I wonder if anyone remembered my post before Monday's game about William Moore being the key guy, along with Nicholas and Abraham? I'll stay with that song. Our Missouri kids can play!
September 21st, 2012
7:50 am
Look for a big game from Magic Mike! He'll be more popular than ever down to the club!
September 21st, 2012
8:25 am
I second you on that PB… Ryan is a class act. We have a lot of class on this team and I am so happy to have them as role models for our kids here in Atlanta and around the country as their class play permeates the nation. We can be proud of all of them.
San Diego will be tough but they haven't faced a team of the Falcons' caliber yet. Every NFL team has really great players and they are all professionals so there aren't many easy ones out there. Our Falcons will have to focus and do their best the whole day. Matty and the receivers are going to be a load for any team and I expect to see the run evolve as the season progresses. Regardless of Norv Turner's familiarity with Nolan's defense… if they play like they did in quarters 1-3 last week, they will be a challenge for any offense in the NFL. Can't wait for Sunday! GO FALCONS! YOU ARE RISING UP!
September 21st, 2012
8:27 am
@Jimmy: You don't get any points on the field of play if you catch the ball and the ground causes it to become dislodged. The rule in the endzone is different so as to remove any doubt. You have to maintain possession through the end of the play, including landing on the ground, cause six points are at stake. On the normal field of play, the reciever gets the benefit of the doubt, in the endzone, he has to earn it.
September 21st, 2012
8:29 am
Is speeding on the road while intoxicated a class act? Cause that's what the nation was exposed to this week.
September 21st, 2012
8:35 am
Look! It's Dog the Bounty Hunter!
September 21st, 2012
8:36 am
Jimmy – if you have possession and you fall and the ball pops loose, that's not a loss of possession. The play ends when the player is down. If you never have possession, and you hit the ground and the ball goes out, that's still no possession.
September 21st, 2012
8:37 am
Turner was not a class act on his DUI. He put people's lives at risk while driving drunk, but even if he would have killed someone then there would be a lot of people coming to his defense and he most likely would have received very light punishment for his act. He needs to pay for his act and that will be up to the Court to decide. If he wants to stay sober and be a productive citizen then that will be up to him.
September 21st, 2012
8:39 am
That all you have seen? Really? O yeah, the aints are 0-2 and bottom dwellers again!! What could you say football wise?? hahaha Go Falcons!!!!
September 21st, 2012
8:40 am
Stupid – yes! And just think, he might have become an arch-criminal like the Joker and then we'd need Batman to save us! Run for the hills!
He screwed up. Everyone is fine. Relax.
September 21st, 2012
8:42 am
Yeah, but he was leaving a strip club! In Georgia, aren't you allowed to speed at 95mph, while drunk, when leaving a strip club? At least that's how the rest of the nation sees that "class".
September 21st, 2012
8:45 am
Don't be so fatuous.
Football wise, I already explained why there is a different rule for maintaining possession of the ball in the endzone. What have you added? BTW, I also say that there's still 14 games to be played.
September 21st, 2012
8:50 am
Tell Ollie Wilson "Hi," he's greatly missed!
September 21st, 2012
8:53 am
Seen — it's setting up beautifully again this year!!
Bama -LSU 3.
We're gonna stomp the living sh!t outta you over-matched bayou thrash.
Poor Jordon Jefferson, we ruined his life. Once the star of that cess-pool state, now he can't even get free Gumbo anywhere.
Perhaps the Hatter can coach em to mid-field this year.
As for the bigger boys, 0 & 2. Y'all wont cover 9 against the Chiefs.
We miss Lofton. I particularly enjoyed those highlights of his fat tail chasing/grasping for Cam last week. We saw how amazing Cam is against a real team last night.
Somebody had to pay Lofton, thank God for you idiots.
September 21st, 2012
8:58 am
Im not sure we can beat anybody. I'm here in Charlotte and after the Panties got plastered by the NYG B team…they're calling in to the radio station and saying…"at least we get to recover against the sorry Falcons"! Huh..Interesting. I didnt think we were sorry at all. BEAT SAN DIEGO!!!
September 21st, 2012
8:59 am
@Big Crismson: You didn't screw up Jefferson's life, he did that all by himself.
September 21st, 2012
9:04 am
Poor Lofton, he took the wrong player on Carolina's option EVERY-TIME!!!
September 21st, 2012
9:04 am
Dzor22 – anyone can have a bad game, but Newton's attitude in the press conference was positively girly. I wanted to hand him a towel to blubber into. Not good. He needs to grow up a little and hang out with his teammates instead of hunkering down under his laundry.
September 21st, 2012
9:12 am
Cam's a big baby.
Proven again last night.
Terrible team-mate.
Drink more Cam-aid, for those who said Carolina was winning this division.
I'll take Matt Ryan over Cam any day & so would any NFL Coach that wants to Win.
September 21st, 2012
10:13 am
Seen, how many Falcon wins and Saint losses will it take for you to come on over from the dark side?
September 21st, 2012
10:17 am
On second thought Seen, I don't want you to convert because I like your daily comedy.
September 21st, 2012
10:27 am
Good info, O. Appreciate it!
September 21st, 2012
10:46 am
0-2 Aints….. Nuff said..
September 21st, 2012
10:49 am
Michael Turner is a human being..we all make mistakes and he will learn from it and move on…DUI not that big of a deal its a MISDEAMEANOR…..TURNER will have 16 Carries….134 yds this week and 3 receptions for 58 yards will be player of the week!
September 21st, 2012
10:55 am
[...] GAME DAY CENTRAL: Falcons vs. Chargers As a rookie, he led the Falcons to a 22-16 victory over the Chargers on Nov. 30, 2008, at Qualcomm Stadium. He tossed a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Harry Douglas to put the Falcons up 22-13 with 14:56 left to play in the fourth quarter. Read more on Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) [...]
September 21st, 2012
10:55 am
I.. I love you guys :'(
September 21st, 2012
10:57 am
Carolina fans have to be feeling really good about life.
Did you hear Cam Newton's interview after the game last night? That guy threw the entire city under the bus and all his team mates at the same time. He actually said that the fans of Carolina should be hanging their heads in shame. In fact, what he said was "IF I was a fan of the Carolina Panthers I would be hanging my head in shame" Fortunately, Cam is not a fan of the Panthers.
I cant wait for this Panthers team to come in to the GA Dome and get blown out.
TB fans, got a rough season ahead of you. At least youll be able to get a good QB in the draft next year.
Taints fans….just cut smaller eye holes in those paper bags you all wear. (You know like the REAL taints fans) Ill bring some to the game for you in case you need to use yours for a sick bag.
September 21st, 2012
11:01 am
LOL! Lofton's performance with the aints thus far. Man I'm glad he accepted their offer! Not a 3 down player at all!
September 21st, 2012
11:02 am
D man: Doncha worry now, I will be a steadfast Saints fan till the day I die.
I say Turner won't get even 16 yards this week, though, I do admit, he may get 16 carries….
September 21st, 2012
11:03 am
Carolina destroys the Saints, New York dismantles Carolina,……. hmmmmm what does this tell us?
September 21st, 2012
11:05 am
@ the imposter at 10:55am, you're a living example of why this is such a snot rag of a blog.
September 21st, 2012
11:08 am
Neutral -
That the Saints are dreadfully aweful ???
September 21st, 2012
11:09 am
@ Neuteral: It tells us that you're no neutral onlooker if you're looking for inferences between two different games.
September 21st, 2012
11:10 am
DUI is not that big of a deal? Seriously?
10,000 people a year killed by DUI drivers…not a big deal?
Show me someone who thinks DUI is not a big deal and Ill show you someone who will be getting a DUI
September 21st, 2012
11:10 am
Just an observtion fella
September 21st, 2012
11:11 am
Big test on the road but I like our team right now. If the run doesn't work, make adjustments! Play solid and we can win this one. GO FALCONS
September 21st, 2012
11:13 am
Enter your comments here
September 21st, 2012
11:13 am
@North FLA
That is the #1 difference in this team over the past 4 years. This team and coaching staff will actually make adjustments!
Hopefully they will adjust the running game to a 100+yd day
September 21st, 2012
11:13 am
Then you should leave, Seen. Though with your team tanking along with all of your preseason boasts and predictions, it is somewhat entertaining that you're still trying to dish it out.
September 21st, 2012
11:15 am
An observation! Oh, well then, why didn't you say so in the beginning. Here's an observation: The falcan'ts have played well during the season for the last four years but always go 1 and done in the playoffs….hmmmm what does that tell us for this year?
September 21st, 2012
11:16 am
I like the Falcons so so, if I had to pick a pro team, not a big NFL fan but just watching games recently, Saints are sort of slipping
September 21st, 2012
11:18 am
Hey guy, are like this all the time ?? I take it your a Saints fan ?
September 21st, 2012
11:18 am
I was really impressed with the secondary especially the safeties last weekend. Not only were they in position to make plays, they made plays, over and over again.
I'm getting more comfortable with them out there than I have been. I think we will see more of Akeem Dent this week.


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Overlord, by Jorie Graham. HarperCollins, 112 pp., $22.95 (hardcover).
Sugartown, by David Rivard. Graywolf, 80 pp., $14.
Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2004, by David Wojahn. University of Pittsburgh, 216 pp., $14.
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Poets are accused of political soapboxing almost as often as they're deemed irrelevant, and as these judgments are equally chronic (not to mention one-dimensional), it should come as no surprise that American poetry is still tackling everything from autumn leaves to Guantánamo Bay—and sometimes in the same sentence. This is new only in the sense that, with each fresh newspaper headline, our sense of obligation to say something insightful about ourselves seems to intensify.Whether headlines are a good motivation or not is open to debate.What's clear is that, whether we like it or not, we live in a guilty nation, and that the first step in coming to terms with that guilt is simply recognizing that it exists.The next step, as these five books demonstrate, is somewhat more difficult to agree on.
Jorie Graham's most recent book takes its title from theWWII code name given to the Allied Powers' European offensive, one that culminated in the D-Day landing on the beaches of Normandy. Her subject is ostensibly war, but she does not limit herself to the battlefield. The poems rather take battle as simply the most visible—and memorable—of theaters on which to enact dramas between the idea of personal morality and that of Christian redemption.
The poems in Overlord move chiefly between historical accounts of the events leading up to the D-Day invasion, often given in soldiers' diaries or letters that Graham has excavated, and the narrator's own attempts at prayer, each suitably titled "Praying." In the opening prayer sequence, the speaker quickly reveals herself as someone who recreates war memories as a method of understanding her own relationship to an inhospitable world. God, if He exists, is merely the medium for this understanding, so that every prayer in this book becomes, sooner or later, an argument with oneself.
Plumbing the existential depths of our national memories, and doing it without sounding self-important, is an ambitious goal. Yet Graham's language is rarely subsumed by the ideas behind it. Her words are surprisingly simple, and her diction is clear and emotionally subtle, as in the last lines of the opening poem "Other":
We can be part full, only part, and not die.We can be in and out of here, now,
at once, and not die.The little song, the little river, has banks.We can pull up
and sit on the banks.We can pull back
from the being of our bodies, we can live in a
portion of them, we can be absent, no one can tell.
This would be pretentious if it weren't so damningly true. Indeed, some of the most interesting passages in these poems are those that are surprisingly void of image, those that surround their ideas with abstraction, self-analysis or, as in "Other," outright lecture. Graham's work has always been intellectual–sometimes annoyingly so-but these poems, continuously attuned to the numbing tragedies of war, possess a plainspoken intelligence that is personal, motivated and (considering the time of their publication) entirely relevant.
The abstractions also serve as much-needed breathing spaces between the more graphic descriptions of war. In the spirit of Jarrell's "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" and Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est," many of the poems graphically describe battles that are at best pyrrhic victories and, at worst, complete disasters.This sort of imagery is thickest in the book's central triptych of poems, "Spoken From the Hedgerows," a pastiche of soldiers' words and Graham's own dramatizations of World War II firefights. In the second sequence, a squadron of American glider pilots is devastated by German anti-aircraft fire:
... bullets up through our feet, explosions of Jack's face, more sudden openings
in backs, shoulders, one in a neck, throat opens, I happen to see, I see an eye
pushed back, through the face, then on back through
the canvas skin ...
Graham is effective here, not because she's trying to accurately capture the heat of battle (which she does), but because her language manages to be so immediate while also suggesting, with its clinical evocation of orifices and surgeries, that the knowledge of war alone isn't inherently meaningful, and that our familiarity with its sheer unreasonableness doesn't keep us from waging it.
Overlord is replete with violent images, then, because Graham recognizes that we have become, if not desensitized to those images, at least inured enough to misuse them. Hence her appropriation of the imagery for personal memory and theological reflection: humans can be selfish, and we often tend to recreate war as a catalyst for our own psychological crises. Interestingly, the book later observes that this tendency is universal, that we can't help but see the entire outside world as a sort of enormous mirror, as in "Disenchantment," where Graham addresses a tree outside her window:"The book tells me I can't see you, / it's all frames and lenses and you ... / you are but a little flash, a cloud taking form in my neuron chamber ..."Here the conflict is not physical but internal, a question of whether we can ever see past the machinery of our own thinking.To illustrate this conflict, the poem later includes a second narrator's observation (taken verbatim from Virginia Woolf 's novel To the Lighthouse) on the selfishness of the first:"'Instantly she was annoyed with herself for saying that.'"
This is one of the very few points where we're likely to grumble and close the book, at least until we feel generous enough to watch a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet berate herself—albeit obliquely–for transforming her own subject into a beautiful and moving work of art. Many politically minded poems are either too sure of themselves (David Wojahn's, for instance) or too visibly mired in uncertainty for that uncertainty to be convincing. Graham is far too subtle to be accused of jingoism, and when Overlord falters it does so because its self-doubt is sometimes too practiced."Am I aware enough?"the poems ask."Have I reached a level of introspection that legitimates my moral outrage?" Well,Yes, we want to reply, but you already knew that. Nobody should have to pray in front of a mirror.
This is not exactly the worst mistake a book can make, and given the complex metaphorical terrain, Overlord's most powerful moments are those that implicate its speaker more honestly. Especially in the "Praying" poems, Graham suggests, without the meta-commentary, that there is indeed something about the lofty security of the page that threatens to invalidate what's written. In "Copy," for example, she signs an e-mail petition from Susan Sontag on behalf of Amnesty International, only to grapple with the familiar question of whether petitions really change anything.The poem questions everything–its speaker, its political motives, its willingness to look outside itself—everything, that is, except its language, whose confidence and skill are what allow Graham to successfully ask the questions in the first place.
Perhaps that is the most gratifying aspect of the poems in this book–their subject brings them to the edge of harangue, but they remain, in the end, firmly undecided, oscillating between outrage at the idiocy of war and the knowledge that, as humans, we carry a part of the burden that can't simply be wiped away by signing a petition.This oscillation may dissatisfy readers of more overtly political poetry, but it ultimately produces a book whose relevance does not force it into polemics, and whose inwardness does not keep it from being relevant.
The proliferation of self-portraits in David Rivard's most recent book–"Self-Portrait as a Boxful of Pigeons,""as a Blind Snowy Owl," "as Anchored Sunlight"–initially suggests that the poems in Sugartown will be solipsistic and surreal. They are neither. Rivard has a keen eye for satire and a healthy taste for irony, and his pages bristle with proper nouns–FedEx, Kangol, Prozac, Victoria's Secret—bright, hollow symbols of an America whose advertisements are almost invisible because they're so garish. These poems know their subjects. Rivard is especially good at describing teenagers, oddly enough, in a way that seems both accurate and surprisingly tender:"on the steps of the high school gym / a sunburnt swaying girl in denim short-shorts / kisses a crab-shouldered dropout / a hottie as they say ..."You get the sense, reading these poems, that teenagers would like Rivard, might even ask him to hang out–or at least wouldn't compare him to their parents.
The best work in Sugartown, not coincidentally, continues to make individual people—the young, the disestablished, the chronically poor–its primary subjects.What's more, when the poems succeed they do so not because Rivard is shedding some great light on what it means to be young or poor, but because he seems to take such great pleasure in the descriptions themselves.Take the last lines of "Delia," for instance:
tho God forgave you this, & all else, later
he was watching you then at home
you were soaking in the tub, hair in a topknot, little breasts
shadows of a light blue vein near an aureole
your swarthy, pleasantly crossed thighs just below the water–
that was you, dear.
A compelling tone emerges from these details. The startling intrusion of the "swarthy" thighs keeps the passage neatly balanced between eulogy and realism, and the last line's brevity is strangely appropriate. The poem, like its subject, has become vulnerable, its tone sincere and unguarded.
Even more intriguing is Rivard's ability to maintain that sincerity within the hyperactive urban colloquialisms he is so clearly fond of. "Delia," it turns out, is relaxing after having "boosted an exceptionally lovely cell phone / the jellybean Nokia candy-clear kind / this one's faceplate violet,I believe ..."It's almost as if the shoplifting is therapeutic, or at least imbued with a sort of transient value: if you're going to steal something, it might as well be pretty.The phrasing is loose, irreverent, hip-but also weirdly intimate. When these poems succeed, then, it's not because they surprise us with their language. It's because their language transcends novelty by expressing verifiable human emotion. In doing so, the poems reconcile our failures—the flawed bodies, cramped apartments, guttering cars—to the need for a sense of humor with which, if we try, we can sometimes approach them. It's a process of atonement quite different, though no less valid, than Jorie Graham's.
Sometimes Rivard is so tuned in to the language of the tragically hip that it overtakes him, as in the first half of the title poem:
Sweet & lowdown,
you do
have a tongue
on you tho,
and it's nice, what it's doing
what it's done too
to that popsicle stick
it's licking.
But what it said earlier,
it hurt,
I can't remember the words
but they hurt,
and had
on the undercasing of their circuitry
the phrase
"patent pending"
stamped in dark blue ink.
The diction is pure jazz—amplified by the ampersand and shorthand "tho"—until it shifts midsentence into the sterile language of business electronics.We're presumably supposed to read this as an abortive or alienating shift in the speaker's thoughts, but it comes too easily and rings a little false, as if Rivard had created the first voice merely in order to distort it with the second.When the poem continues,"[y]ou hurt all manner of beings alive, / without knowing, // as a wind would / descending out of a storm cloud," we're presented with another voice, barren and omniscient, like something out of Four Quartets.
Rivard also occasionally falls under the long shadow of John Ashbery, as evidenced in "We Either Do or Don't":"And the dominoes the laughing sisters / threw far across the grass / have been stolen now by rooks. // So don't speak too soon of acceptance. // That the sun stands apart / from all that it abuts, / unwilling to judge it, / may be our only real hope."The governing structure here is non sequitur. But the vice is not so much in lacking logic—which many good poems do—as in following that lack with lines that seem to be selling us an ersatz emotional urgency. Of what are we being persuaded here? Racial tolerance? Nature's indifference to human ambition? The poem won't tell us.The most compelling work in Sugartown is ultimately that which manages to find an equilibrium between the glitz of modern satire and the sobering stillness of reflection. Similarly, Rivard's funhouse language is strongest in those moments when the trapdoors and false ceilings open to reveal, quite unexpectedly, some image whose strangeness is inseparable from its poignance: "And in the cages by the man's head / the vulnerable & tired are asleep now too— / ... —vexed birds, / the illiterate and beshitted messengers of the rolled-up / slipstream of days."
The satisfying thing about reading a new and selected edition is that the end of the book leaves off right where it began, so that you feel as if you've come full circle. Unfortunately, this satisfaction is one of the few that David Wojahn's newest collection reliably offers, for while it includes some excellent poems, especially in the early books, it is also evidence of a poetic voice that has been hardened, but not improved, by the fact of a violent world.
Most of the new work in For the Poltergeists: New Poems is eclipsed by Wojahn's frustration at the current president. "Board Book & the Costume of a Whooping Crane," for example, finds him marveling at his infant son's intelligence but then getting distracted and angered by the TV: "The President's rodent eye pulses out from CNN, darting & glazed, / squinting for the next thing // to lift to the mouth, for he must eat & eat ..." A few pages later, he's in a hospital room with his now feverish son, while the TV plays "a Bush campaign ad / Air Force One soaring down from the clouds // Like the opening of Triumph of the Will, the ferret face in slow dissolve" ("Dithyramb and Lamentation"). In these first thirty pages or so, President Bush proves to be a sharp thorn in Wojahn's side, so much so that the language seems to unravel and go slack.The directness of these attacks ends up limiting their power—aren't the most lasting polemical works usually those that suppress the villain's name?
Given this taste of Wojahn's latest work, it is a joy to finally read his earliest.The poems of Icehouse Lights and Glassworks, his first two books, are understated and precise, concerned mostly with private memories and written in quietly assertive phrases. Here is part I of "Glaucoma":
There's an olive grove inside the fence
that circles the home for the blind.
I drive each day past the gate
where they come to the crosswalk
in mismatched couples,
having one great thing in common.
I'm braked, the motor off,
making up names.
There's sightless Elena leaning
on the stoplight, twelve-year-old Samuel
gripping her wrist. Redhead Anya
drops her cane to the curb,
stops the traffic as she searches.
I always picture their dorms at night.
Roommates,Anya and Elena
drink wine after lights-out.
The gray, forbidden cat nudges
their knees for food.
Elena pours too much milk,
filling the bowl from fingertip to knuckle.
Wojahn's attention here is on depth, not breadth, of scope. His observations are painfully deliberate: as the speaker himself is tested for glaucoma, his interest in others' blindness becomes a vision of his own future, as if he were rehearsing for an inescapable role. Almost every poem in Icehouse Lights takes its principal subject from the mundane—a neighbor bringing vegetables, the photograph of an aunt—and it is frequently through the mundane that Wojahn seems able to produce his best images and his most exacting language.
Curiously, some of these poems also capture the political relevance that the new poems contort themselves so fiercely to achieve. The circumference of Glassworks includes both aWorldWar II-era pow camp ("Beyond the prison compound's barbed / wire mesh, twenty yards away, my father / in his corporal's stripes sips sick- / sweet grappa ...") and the imprisonment of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet (who "cups his hand around / the single candle he's been issued this week").There's a sharp pathos in lines like these that makes their context that much more immediate; we're not observers here, but uncomfortable participants, and the poet's voice seems just as uncomfortable, just as torn between dutifully recording the conflict and averting his eyes.
The poems of Mystery Train form a kind of musical/historical interlude that seems, at times, a microcosm of Wojahn's entire oeuvre. The selections from the title sequence are snapshots of small, often fictional moments in the history of rock music—"Woody Guthrie Visited by Bob Dylan: Brooklyn State Hospital, New York, 1961," for example, or "Delmore Schwartz at the First Performance of the Velvet Underground, New York, 1966"—moments that chronicle the evolution of rock music from its roots in folk and blues to the drug- addled frenzies of the late 60's. Eventually, the musicians are not so much performers as they are highly visible bystanders, witnesses to a world where commercials, violence, and the commercialization of violence are all increasingly hard to ignore. By the time the poems reach 1987, Ted Turner is colorizing Hard Day's Night, John Lennon's assassination is reenacted in wax museums, and whatever innocence rock had in the 50's has vanished for good.
The last three books—Late Empire, The Falling Hour, and Spirit Cabinet—begin to indicate that Wojahn's poetic vision has become one of darkness. Their poems are frustrated, earnest, clearly disturbed by the events of the last fifty years. "The First Six Seals" is a case study of the failure of twentieth century religion; "Homage to Ryszard Kapuscinski" describes a scene in which the fanatical mourners at the Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral "are one / Devouring Alpha and Omega, each face a frame / In a film with a cast of billions.The future belongs to Them." (This last line is an ironic reply to Kapuscinski's lament that "Only the past belongs to us.") By the time we reach Spirit Cabinet, Wojahn is marrying environmental destruction and religious fervor— "consider God, now incarnate as Himself, / God-of-Pillar-of-Smoke-from-Heaven-ddt"—as if he were stumping for Greenpeace ("Poison, 1959").
This is really too bad. Good political poetry is hard to find, a fact that should make us more eager to find the people who can write it. But the strongest poems in these last three books are once again private, as in "White Lanterns" or "The Shades," a sequence that revisits the life and death of Wojahn's father. He's somehow more invested in these poems, more in control, even at his most experimental:
My wordless father in a basement a rifle in his mouth
My father wordless in a basement a rifle in his mouth
My father a rifle in his mouth
wordless in a basement
A rifle in his mouth my father wordless in a basement
The repetition, frank and relentless, seems the son's only way of articulating this event.There is no blame here, only confusion and the desire to speak, as if the right combination of words might make sense of the scene they're describing. The Falling Hour especially is proof that the poet, when he wants to, can capture the failures of the world much more effectively in his ruminations on sickness and death, as in "Oracle," an elegy for Raymond Carver, or "Tractate for Doctor Tourette," a moving homage to Carolyn Forche's "The Colonel." Much as Wojahn clearly wants us to know that he is relevant, the most relevant poems in this new collection are those that first engage us with their language before raising the curtain on our collective guilt.
The blurbs on the back of ChristianWiman's second collection mention Frost twice and Yeats once, which seems to suggest that Wiman will be channeling Frost twice as much.This turns out to be partially true, since Hard Night is built around three long, narrative poems that do in fact recall Frost's long poems—those that always seem to go unread in favor of his shorter ones. I hope that this neglect will not be the case with Hard Night, because it is generally the longer poems that impress: one of this book's more obvious strengths is its ability to create complex characters—and equally complex relationships-within the impatient space of a lyrical narrative.
The three long poems—"Sweet Nothing," "The Ice Storm," and "Being Serious"—owe their success partly to a diction as sparse and self-demanding, sometimes, as Geoffrey Hill's or Anthony Hecht's. Here is the opening of the first poem:
Built or torn away?
All I know is noise
of wood and workmen
woke me this morning
and for an hour or more
I've drowsed between
my body and next door . . .
This is the sort of seemingly effortless beginning that takes hours to compose: the lulling trimeter of the first two lines that picks up again in lines five and seven; the thick, lazy slant rhymes that mirror the speaker's torpor; the sleepy "o" and "w" woven seamlessly into every phrase. As the poem continues, the narrative broadens; we're shown "the moldy keeps / and closes of Suffolk, / cathedraled Cambridge, / Rotterdam and Rome," and, a few pages later, "Burkina Faso, / that's what I dreamed of, / a border that was nothing / but a line in the sand." The diction reflects the shifts accordingly, becoming more dully elegant in Europe, more earthbound in West Africa. Something of the pilgrim emerges in these lines, a seasoned voice that's more than the sum of its parts.
If Wiman's first long poem is an exploration of geographical limits, his second,"The Ice Storm," is a study of human ones:
Eva's hours have nearer ends.
She heats the little disk the cat sleeps on;
chips, until her hands are gone,
the glaze off all the feeders for the birds;
then writes two friends
to thank them for the birthday chocolates they've sent.
The word alone makes her stomach burn.
These lines address themselves to us, to the slow accretion of habits and rituals that characterize our lives. And while many poets would be happy just maintaining the wilted modesty that Wiman creates here, "The Ice Storm" continually grows, collecting details from the marriages of William Gladstone and Gustav Mahler and developing them as historical counterpoints to the pale suburban drudgery of the Great American Old Couple, where Eva, the aging wife, serves "Sweet pickles and white bread" to a husband "so palsied now / he can't keep his cocktails quiet."This is the poet at his best, giving himself the space to address a range of human subjects and enough time to afford his observations a coherent structure. He's stopped trying to channel Frost and has turned instead to the pithy satire of Philip Larkin.
This satire starts to overstep itself in "Being Serious," a patchwork biography (occasionally reminiscent of Anne Carson's "Autobiography of Red") in which a man named Serious lives and dies amid the fatally self-reflective whirlpool that his name implies. In one scene, a schoolboy Serious "Packs up his lunchbox, his dignity, / And his copy of Sartre" after telling his classmates of their mortality; in another, "Serious has a date with Doom, / . . . / Who always wants whatever Serious wants / And always agrees with what he has to say." It's certainly clever, but Wiman has already shown us that he doesn't really need to be clever. The most enjoyable moments in this poem are those that try, in fact, to be Serious, and that perceive the poem's subject as a human being rather than a human allegory.That, in fact, is the beauty of "The Ice Storm": its characters are completely unaware of the roles they're playing, and in their unawareness they remind us of ourselves.Through them,Wiman acknowledges and describes our individual failings but does not attempt to solve them—a tacit admission, perhaps, that coming to terms with guilt is less an intellectual matter than it is a private one.And Hard Night, like its melancholy anti-hero, thus seems most commendable when it's not gazing at itself.
Wiman is also capable of demonstrating a hypnotic musicality, and not just in the long poems; "Reading Herodotus" shows us a vision of ancient Rome as sonorous as it is cruel:
They are gone now, swirled
in the dark earth with the ones who,
seeing their slaves go mad, killed them,
who are themselves gone, their bones
partaking of the same silence in which lie
all the dog-headed men of the mountains. . .
Here, as elsewhere, is a palpable tension between the meaning of the lines and their beauty. Wholesale slavery, perversion ... History eventually shrugs its shoulders and turns away (though the facts do not disappear).Wiman is adept at pointing out these wrongs, but he is also extremely conscious of how they confer irony to the notion of poems as songs: what better way to represent Rome than in its simultaneous love of beauty and brutality?
The few disappointing moments in Hard Night usually occur within the short poems—those that often eschew the concrete in favor of misty concepts like transparence or permeability. Once-grounded objects begin to lose themselves: throughout the book's first half, not only do "children become their cries," but "crows become the light" and "the ball becomes the air" in an alchemy of abstraction that's fun to conceptualize but frustratingly difficult to see.
The problem may simply be that Wiman slightly overvalues the imagistic force that words such as "darkness" or "shadow," lacking enough visible context, can truly carry, leaving his readers wondering what they just read and whether it was showing them anything at all. The first three stanzas of the title poem show us that Wiman knows he's taking this risk and that he's not entirely sure it works:
What words or harder gift
does the light require of me
carving from the dark
this difficult tree?
What place or farther peace
do I almost see
emerging from the night
and heart of me?
The sky whitens, goes on and on.
Fields wrinkle into rows
of cotton, go on and on.
Night like a fling of crows
disperses and is gone.
That third stanza almost feels like the beginning of a new poem, one in which the poet has found a way to illustrate his question of almost-sight without making the illustration self-defeating. Wiman is already a skilled manipulator of form and meter, and when he applies his technique to dissecting the prosaic details of our contemporary world, the narratives are far less prosaic than those gauzy distichs on darkness. On the contrary: they're downright illuminating.
As its title implies, Brian Barker's The Animal Gospels is intermittently concerned with giving voices to animals—most of them four-footed, though "Mockingbird Gospel" and "Crow Gospel Coming Down from the Mountain" extend the privilege to birds as well. Barker is not merely a ventriloquist, though. Nor should his canon of creatures lead us to believe he's trying to reinvent paradise; the book opens, after all, with the long, fragmented poem "Flood." The farther one reads into The Animal Gospels (and it doesn't take long—the author has culled his debut collection to only seventeen poems in fewer than eighty pages), the more one finds that his anthropomorphism is little more than a "Rosebud"-style gimcrack, behind which he can explore the rural decay of the American South and its twin legacies of hospitality and racism.
The poet's interest in the lives of small towns is thoroughly reminiscent of Richard Hugo, but the early work of Philip Levine is also here, especially in the oracular voice of "Guinea Pig Gospel":"Out of mildewed files, out of charts / burnt by the blind god of Indifference and Mistakes, / out of a tainted petri dish and a drawer / strewn with syringes, I rise tonight. . . ." The speaker, as it turns out, is entirely human, a black man living in the rural South, and only a guinea pig in the sense that he was subject to unregulated medical testing by the U.S. government. His gospel is news, all right, though it's anything but good.
The social significance of Barker's animals seems to grow with each page."Crow Gospel Coming down from the Mountain," arguably the most ambitious poem in the collection, pieces together childhood memories of the neighborhood Ku Klux Klan and the more subtle racism of the poet's own relatives. In it, the crows are the only witnesses to the murder of a local black man.The muskrats of "Muskrat Gospel," conversely,are trapped at a creek and eaten by a young man left destitute by the closing of local coal mines and lumber mills. Both human and animal are victims, but in the end it is the young man—later revealed to be the poet's grandfather–whose suffering matters most.
But the compelling thing isn't that Barker uses his mammals and birds as vehicles of human failure. Rather, it's that he so often manages to do this without getting sucked into the yawning thematic vortex of the metaphor itself. "Muskrat Gospel" ends, for instance, on a strange but gentle note:
let me believe it when I see you
fall again, laddering over black branches
into the creek, ocean bound, blood bound,
sliding past where everything
bright-eyed and furred dreams in the dark, and grief
lifts weightlessly from the backs
of the dying,wafting up like a familiar perfume.
The distinction between human and non-human—furred muskrat, dying grandfather—has dissolved, but it almost seems like the words and sounds themselves are making the dissolution possible.When Barker can make this relationship work, he's a true delight to read. Interestingly, the lines in which he clearly wants to delight you are those that most often fail to do so. Displays of emotional vulnerability ("I could lie here with you forever") or nostalgia ("Once, when I was sixteen and death didn't exist, / When it didn't follow me as it does now") tend to crack under the pressure of their own expectations.
This is, in the end, a hopeful book. And Barker, perhaps sensing the weakness of the above lines, is usually subtle enough to disguise that hope behind a veil of disappointment and anger at the way his country treats its rural poor. The jacket flap gushes that the Gospels contain "not a single note of irony," but that's not exactly true. It should strike us as profoundly ironic, if it does not already, that the South has historically been either an Eden or a Hell on Earth, depending on what color you were. Hence the ambivalent tribute, in "The Trees of the South," to "the sweet gum in Selma / battered by shotgun blasts," and "the cottonwood somewhere outside Charleston / with a foot of rotted rope still dangling / from a branch." Barker is rightly unwilling to shy away from the South's demons, but he faces them as a witness and not a judge. Hence his determination, near the end of the book, to "conjure happiness out of spindrift and salt air, / Out of wind, out of blown sand, out of the frail cries of / the sparrows. . . ." It is, perhaps, because of their frailty that non-human animals seem such unblemished sources of comfort.
A purely innocent voice would not recognize our capacity for evil. A purely cynical one would talk of nothing else, and a fearful one would simply be silent.The Animal Gospels falls somewhere between. There is judgment here, but (as in Graham's Overlord) it is almost always turned inward. To judge one's past fairly, then, is to first acknowledge that one has already found some sort of redemption as an individual. It is to Barker's credit that he seeks it in the language of the poem itself.
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Dec 8, 2012 to Dec 14, 2012
Everyday Holidays : Church and Silence Day
December 9, 2012 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Bard College
Bibles and cells. I'll show you mine, if you show me yours.
Speakers Series : Julia Bryan-Wilson
December 10, 2012 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Don't Be A Ham!! Christmas Party at Family Business
December 12, 2012 from 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Family Business Gallery - 520 West 21st Street, NYC
Ari Marcopoulos invites you to bring and hang any xerox from December 12th till January 12th at Family Business, for a NYC one month living exhibition!
The CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art are open
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June 23, 2012 - December 21, 2012
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June 23, 2012 - December 21, 2012
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Sunday- May 2- The final day of MerleFest 2010 offers big performances!
Sunday brings us The Spirit of Sunday featuring a performance by Doc Watson and the Nashville Bluegrass Band, at Creekside, followed by Avett patriarch Jim Avett, and a special performance by George Hamilton IV, featuring the music of the prolific blind hymnwriter Fanny Crosby. Sunday Morning Blues at the Americana Stage starts at 10:15 am.
Final Day of the festival features big performances at the Watson stage from Scythian, the Lee Boys and Travelin' McCourys together, WPA, and closing the Festival with the Avett Brothers, in their only NC appearance in the first half of 2010. Could be a record-setting day…. better be here!
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Is Rocker Bottom Reconstruction A Viable Option For Limb Preservation?
- Volume 17 - Issue 12 - December 2004
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Although amputations have their place in the treatment of the Charcot foot, reconstruction is an attractive alternative for limb salvage. Rocker bottom feet can be classified into two groups based on the motion available at the midtarsal joint: stable or unstable. Stable forefeet that have failed conservative care may be candidates for exostectomy with plastic surgery closure. As a rule, lateral rocker bottom ulcerations are the result of a stable deformity. In the event that an exostectomy will allow for relief of the deforming forces, one should consider this the treatment of choice.
One must also address the associated biomechanical flaws if long-term closure is to be successful. The unstable rocker bottom foot will not allow the forefoot to function as a rigid lever during the propulsive phase of gait. The rocker bottom collapse allows excess force to be distributed to the midfoot, leading to progressive midtarsal joint destruction.
When it comes to ulcerations that result from an unstable forefoot, clinicians will often locate these at the medial midfoot. If one performs a simple exostectomy on this unstable foot, further forefoot collapse will result in reulceration. Although we must evaluate every surgical candidate individually, a reconstructive midfoot osteotomy is often indicated for the unstable rocker bottom foot.
Why Internal Fixation Should Be Avoided With Chronic Midfoot Ulcerations
Several procedures have been proposed to correct the osseous etiology that causes midfoot ulcerations. Several authors have discussed the use of internal fixation for Charcot reconstruction. However, there are many complications associated with this approach. The severe osteopenia associated with the Charcot disease process makes screw purchase problematic. According to AO principles, poor bone stock is a relative contraindication for the use of internal fixation. This osteopenic bone often leads to internal fixation failure.
The typical chronic Charcot ulceration that has been present for several months is often colonized with deleterious bacteria. Even meticulous debridement cannot remove all bacterial contaminants. This colonization leads to an increased risk for postoperative infection. This risk is compounded by utilizing internal fixation, which may act as a nidus for infection. Therefore, our contention is that an integument breakdown is a relative contraindication to using internal fixation. This argument is made even stronger by the availability of a viable, if not superior, alternative method of fixation.
Assessing The Benefits Of External Fixation
External fixation provides several advantages over the previously mentioned options. The Ilizarov fine wire methodology avoids the need for screw thread purchase because the fixation is based on non-threaded fine wires under tension. These tensioned fine wires provide multiple points of fixation oriented in multiple planes. When these wires are bowed prior to tensioning, they also provide compression. External fixation avoids the need for retained hardware, which may be a source of infection.


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Mark Morris is scheduled to talk at the Commonwealth Club offices in San Francisco this evening (reception 5:30; program 6:30). Link to Club website below:
Mark Morris at the Commonwealth Club, 9/10
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Decatur resident Kenny Roop has had his fill of snow — enough to last the entire winter season. Shoveling the sidewalk in front of his 11th Street home in Decatur Tuesday morning, Roop said simply, "I'm tired of it." Area residents may be able to put their snow shovels away for awhile, with unseasonably warm temperatures and even a little rain in the forecast for later this week.
Photo by J Swygart
Data Processing Director Landon Patterson last week made another attempt at convincing the Adams County Council to consider an updated and interactive website, but was more brusquely dismissed than he was when he appeared before the council with a similar request last month.
An Amish buggy travels down an ice-covered county road Monday afternoon, just hours before a second round of snow fell on the area. After a weekend storm dropped seven inches of snow on the county, another inch of white precipitation was recorded overnight.
Photo by Mike Lamm
Ben Beer, a representative of the Indianapolis engineering firm of USI Consultants, Inc., informed Adams County Commissioners at their regular monthly meeting Monday the company's submission of the Ceylon covered bridge rehabilitation project to the "Engineering Excellence" competition of the American Council of Engineering Companies has resulted in a State Finalist award for the firm.
From staff reports
Old Man Winter, not officially due to arrive until Dec. 21, made an early visit to Adams County over the weekend as the first substantial snowfall of the winter season left the county mostly paralyzed early Saturday morning.
Feeding our feather friends is important during times of heavy snowfall such as the county experienced over the weekend.
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Landon Patterson, director of the Adams County Data Processing Board, requested the purchase of a software program for the scanning and storage of documents at the regular meeting of the Adams County Commissioners last week.
The program will allow for "reliable document imaging and sharing" between the clerk of courts, auditor's and recorder's offices, Patterson said, noting the software will not create a public portal, but is for internal use only.
The recent mention of the Indiana Innkeeper's Tax at a meeting of the Adams County Council has spurred a Berne business to action.
Naomi Muselman, co-owner of Clock Tower Inn, appeared before the council Tuesday to express her strong opposition to any such considerations of a so-called lodging tax for Adams County.
The Adams County Substance Abuse Awareness Council has received in excess of $16,000 in state and federal grants for various materials and programs connected to drug prevention within the county, Executive Director Kelly Sickafoose reported to both the Adams County Commissioners and Adams County Councilors at their respective meetings earlier this week.
The grants were allocated for expenditures in four specific funds established by the Substance Abuse Awareness Council.
An official agreement between the city of Decatur and the Adams County Regional Sewer District setting the cost and terms of treatment of sewage collected by the fledgling rural sewer district will have to wait a little longer.


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This morning a wonderful book arrived through the post which I'd only bought on a whim as eBay had made it a suggested purchase. How pleased am I? It's fantastic, right up my street and beautifully made! A must buy for any photographic book collection.
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Today's Front Pages Analysis
Grim news, powerful images
Amid tough economic times, even the value of your life is eroding.
"Your life, worth less," said The Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal, leading with a story on a new EPA valuation of the price that people — and employers — would pay to avoid certain risks. Many papers illustrated the EPA study with charts that spiraled downward.
The News-Press in Ft. Myers, Fla., offered some counterbalance to the story that has major policy implications with the sub-headline: "Some charge White House is cooking books."
Small comfort, that. Let's turn to the nation's photojournalists to see the stories they tell in pictures today:
- The St. Petersburg Times in Florida photographed an 18-year-old girl from the neck down, her arms and legs in braces after an attack that left her comatose. The photo illustrates her mother's story, "My Soul is Broken."
- "Six Lucky Ducks Saved in Afternoon Rescue in Peoria" read the headline for a photo of ducklings in a trash-littered storm drain in the Journal Star.
- "Child on the Mend" in Biloxi, Miss.'s Sun Herald depicted a 3-year-old girl with injuries from an attack by a pit bull, also pictured.
- The Herald News in West Paterson, N.J., offered a vivid photo to illustrate the summertime fire-hydrant story with "Grief over relief / Open hydrants refresh kids, yet pose hazard."
- "He'll Call 'Em, You Shoot 'Em" was the grabber headline for an image of a man who makes duck calls in South Carolina's Bluffton Today.
- "Hog Heaven" read the Culpeper (Va.) Star-Exponent headline over a photo of a boy giggling from a close encounter with his hog.
- The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., chronicled continuing wildfires with a poignant photo of a man walking from his home, unable to find his blind and deaf dog, with the headline "Wildfire Chars Homes, Forces Evacuations."
- To see a big one that did not get away, check out the 348.2-pound halibut caught in Alaska, as seen in the Anchorage Daily News.
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Fine Arts Professor Janis Goodman to Exhibit Work in Los Angeles
Janis Goodman, Moving Molecules, oil on panel, 24" x 24" 2009
Janis Goodman, professor and coordinator of third year Fine Art will show new paintings at the JK Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition will run from November 7 to December 19. The paintings draw upon water, molecular structures and natural formations as a point of departure. The images record the constant changing and struggle ever present in the natural world. The work references observation as well as memory and experience. The JK Gallery is located at 2632 S. La Cienega Blvd in Culver City. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11a.m.–5 p.m. For more information, visit www.jkgallery.net or call (310) 837-3330.


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Williston State college point guard Trey Dickerson plans to play for the University of Iowa the next three years.
The 6-foot freshman from New York City gave a verbal commitment to the NCAA Division I Hawkeyes over the weekend.
Williston State says Dickerson had received interest from numerous schools and offers from Iowa, Nebraska, Iona, Washington, Washington State, Arkansas, Alabama-Birmingham, St. Louis, and Fordham.
Williston State is a two-year junior college in northwestern North Dakota.
Dickerson this season helped lead the Tetons to a 26-5 regular season record and a Mon-Dak Conference title. He was named most valuable player in the conference, with an average of 20 points, six assists and four rebounds per game.
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