Starting from Anywhere Patrick Chapman Shakira’s Picture and Mordechai’s Moustaches

Shakira’s Picture and Mordechai’s Moustaches and his Wife’s Cats

from the novel Life As It Is

Khaled Mattawa: Poem Dark Anthem

Co Wexford

Starting from Anywhere Patrick Chapman Shakira’s Picture and Mordechai’s Moustaches"Starting from Anywhere is based upon the generous belief that poetry can begin with anything: a painting, a line from another poem, or even how perfectly ordinary things can 'balk account'. The urgency underlying these quiet poems reveals how the eye and imagination can, must, or perhaps simply will, remake the world. "From the first poem, 'In My Alternate Life', through the volume's mid point a short prose piece called 'When Fictions Are Facts',