Author: Rachel Cantor
Cites
- Galway Kinnell (1)
- IN: Good on Paper (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren't after all, made
from that bird which flies out of its ashes,
that for a man
as he goes up in flames, his one work
is
to open himself, to be
the flames?
FROM: "Another Night in the Ruins" (Body Rags), (1968), Poem, US