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Each poem in this prize-winning collection links two portraits: child and parent, lover and beloved, citizen and country, spirit and body, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it means to see and be seen, to reflect and be reflected, to address and be addressed?
FROM “DOUBLE PORTRAIT”
When will you stop being You
who fits inside my catchall Thou,
the one I post each letter to?
When will you stop being You?
A pronoun never loved or grew.
I return you to your common noun:
then will You stop being you.
Who fits inside my catchall Thou?
Each poem in this prize-winning collection links two portraits: child and parent, lover and beloved, citizen and country, spirit and body, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it means to see and be seen, to reflect and be reflected, to address and be addressed?
FROM “DOUBLE PORTRAIT”
When will you stop being You
who fits inside my catchall Thou,
the one I post each letter to?
When will you stop being You?
A pronoun never loved or grew.
I return you to your common noun:
then will You stop being you.
Who fits inside my catchall Thou?
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