Museum Piece
“onto the cellophane snack bags / blown into corners and a few / resplendent sunbleached cans you projected / a prefabricated sorrow”
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, A Guided Tour for American Students
“This pebble here is a monument to someone. / So is a cloud a stub a poppy a dog—”
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Wound is the Origin of Wonder
“Do you hear our onceness / beating at the door? How the past / outlasts on either end”
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Birth Certificate
“I saw a knife covered with dirt and blood. I picked it up. I held the cherub by its wings.”
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Meditations on Celan
Reflections on mystery, translatability, and the limits of the speakable in single Celan poems
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Excerpts from Memory Rose into Threshold Speech
"There was talk of your God, I spoke / against him"
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Excerpts from Microliths They Are, Little Stones
"Who does not expect the poem, will not recognize it either — "
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