by ANNIE LANZILLOTTO “If I could bless the whole world” In 2013 Clare and I were editing her book manuscript of poetry. I emailed her this question: Clare, p66, there’s a line on the bottom of the page…. which poem does it belong to? a lost line?”If I could bless the whole world”. Annie Now …
by ARIANNA DAGNINO In Spite of My Brilliant Brain (for Hannah Arendt) An inconvenient womanin inconvenient times, I grew upwith men falling under my charm,the depths of my exotic gaze, they’d say,rivalling the reaches of my mind. The first time Herr Professorpressed his mouth againstmy lips, I felt like a leafin the raging wind of …
