![]() ![]() I especially enjoyed her poem admiring a feature of Michelangelo's David, "Ass." The second and third stanzas: Sometimes it's "Beautiful Man-France" and somtimes it's "Sensuality Plunging Barefoot into Thorns" (two titles). She is an agent throughout, choosing her own mistakes. It's a rare poem in the next 60 pages that does not involve a man, yet there is no sense of the speaker being a victim. I loved the way it wrapped me like a skin.įrom "Letter to Ilona from the South of France"įrom here on out, we're hearing from a woman being honest about her passionate dabbling in men, treating them as experiences rather than answers to anything. The first is choppy:Īnd then beginning with the section "Other Countries," we are confronted with a smoother, more confident voice that remains throughout the rest of the collection: ![]() At first, I thought I'd found another disappointing book, but this book has two parts and two voices. ![]()
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