On Fathers < On DaughtyrsTim Atkins What does it mean to be human? Poetry asks this question. The answer, if one looks in any anthologyfrom any country or erawould appear to be that humanity consists of hopelessly doomed romantics, variously religious spiritual seekers, or soldiers. It takes a lot of searching to find a poetry about the most universal and human of activities; that of parenting or of being parented. In recent years, poets such as Bernadette Mayer, Alice

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Antoon’s poems confront violence and force us not to look away as he traces death’s haunting presence in the world

Kenneth Sherwood

I Want Something Other Than Time worries the problem of self-identicality—the distance between the self and the self that recognizes the self—into the socio-political sphere as a problem of temporality

between world and

"Bosch'd" (verb

Reading BOSCH'D I think of Stevens' precept that 'the poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully

some will make your fierce-pipped heart feel fiercer again

Wat hij al die jaren had meegedragen en niet kon verwoorden

Of het nu gaat om de liefde

the profound interconnectedness of language and body in Hijikata’s process of composition

the AIDS epidemic