Shaindel Beers
Auteur de A Brief History of Time (Salt Modern Poets)
Œuvres de Shaindel Beers
The Children's War and Other Poems 2 exemplaires
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A few good poems, but most of these are too prose-y and pretentious. It needed a much better editor and much culling.
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"Sometimes you let him go because it's more cruel
than keeping him.
Sometimes you let him go because freedom
is the opposite of love.
Sometimes you let him go because freedom
is the only love.
Sometimes you let him go because there is only
one Penelope.
Sometimes you let him go because there is only one Calypso
and you know that he will think of her more often
from across the sea."
Also, I admire the sestinas, especially "For Stephen Funk, in Prison for Protesting the Iraq War" and "Why It Almost Never Ends With Stripping" - if I ever teach again, I'll be using these as great examples of the form.… (plus d'informations)