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On Fathers < On DaughtyrsTim Atkins What does it mean to be human? Poetry asks this question. The answer, if one looks in any anthologyfrom any country or erawould appear to be that humanity consists of hopelessly doomed romantics, variously religious spiritual seekers, or soldiers. It takes a lot of searching to find a poetry about the most universal and human of activities; that of parenting or of being parented. In recent years, poets such as Bernadette Mayer, Alice

toiling for years as an obscure clerk in the French War Department

” Where you become aware of something only as it & you become something else that disappears

Meza’s authorial style and references to a millenary Amerindian culture jointly point to another way of conceiving the world

Rosa Alcalá choreographs language to understand the body as it “gathers itself over time to become whole

he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press

offering fresh

Poetry rituals such as riding escalators and showing photographs of himself to strangers asking

Rozalie Hirs

hopefully she’ll sleep

They are bricks hurled at empires

The voice wills these changes into being even as she ‘wills herself barren’

she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka