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November 20, 2015
 

Chess

 
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

About This Poem

 

“I’ve always adored the marvelous and dramatic terminology of the game of chess. And I suppose some of that daydream-y distractedness was what kept me from ever fully understanding how exactly to play the game most of my life. What first started as a meditation on the game itself surprised me into a poem to celebrate ten years of marriage to the man who taught me (and continues to teach) with endless patience.”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil: "Chess"
 

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of Lucky Fish (Tupelo Press, 2011). She is a professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia and lives in Fredonia, New York.

 

Photo credit: Martin Bentsen

Poetry by Nezhukumatathil

 

Lucky Fish

(Tupelo Press, 2011)

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