Excerpts from
N O _ G U N S, _ N O _ D U R I A N
By Susan M. Schultz 2003  $7
Design by Ara Paylo

from "Sons and Lovers"

The defense secretary manipulates actual and symbolic value: "We will smoke them out of their caves". A reporter asks about his shoes, the ones that remind the secretary of Taos, New Mexico. Adobe democrats forget their building material is made of shit.

Susan M. Schultz is author of Aleatory Allegories (Salt), Memory Cards & Adoption Papers (Potes and Poets Press) and the forthcoming And then something happened (Salt). She edited a book of essays, The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry and has a book forthcoming called A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Alabama).