• An Insult To Biology

    Rebecca Wolff

    Summer 2022

    This mutuality
    how you hiss at me on the phone your expletives
    how I relish
    the brutality of prefiguring: partially severing
    your head from your body—particular

    arteries, slicing
    motion of my blade. How ruthlessly I would

    move. For we

    have made our children
    they live on the earth and are its last hope

    and your DNA and my phenotype and the work
    of our blood constricting—they live together.

    Rebecca Wolff is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently One Morning[Symbol] (Wave Books, 2015), and a novel, The Beginners (Riverhead Books, 2011). She is the editor of Fence, and lives in the Hudson Valley, where she is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany.

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    Here where the various Venuses gather
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    Review: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

    Spencer Hupp

    These serious little songs are colored by the racial and political context of our time, our anxious vacillation between online activism and lived apathy: “I ain’t mad at you, / Assassin. It’s not the bad people who are brave / I fear, it’s the good people who are afraid.” Binaries—courage and fear, sex and death, good and bad, past and future—inhabit many of these poems, because Hayes deals in facts that shouldn’t bear repeating, but desperately do.

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