J.’s Reviews > Collected Poems: 1950–2012 > Status Update

"Breathe deep! No hurt, no pardon / out here in the cold with you / you with your back to the wall."

Thank goodness that's over. I know a translator of a poem becomes by default a coauthor, but I don't really want to read poems by Dutch men in my Adrienne Rich book.

"I can be replaced a thousand times, / a box containing death."

"Miscarried knowledge twists us / like hot sheets thrown askew."

"the task of being ourselves"