You Have Doubts About the Patience
Rent from DeepDyve- You Have Doubts About the Patience
you have doubts about the patience of this wild beast earth when its eyes absent themselves to open on the blue which colors its sense like you like the poem this earth is born of the look that dreamed it life is a crossing between two shores analogy of margins slow movement toward the unfinished song of innocence and memory scribe in the night of language when night speaks the language of noughts you are on this earth to grow your soul tame what's human in dread inhabit the word's word and keep the poem's promise
Amina Saïd was born in Tunisia in 1952 and now lives in Paris. She is the author of eight collections of poetry. Her ninth collection, from which the current poem is taken, will be published this year.
Marilyn Hacker’s most recent book is Desesperanto (W. W. Norton). She received the Lenore Marshall Award from the American Academy of Poets in 1995 for Winter Numbers (W. W. Norton) for which she also won a Lambda Literary Award. Hacker received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.
