Each year since 1986, an accomplished woman poet has selected a poetry manuscript by an emerging woman poet for the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, which includes publication by Beacon Press. Poet Lyn Hejinian chose Jena Osman's The Character for publication in 1999. I always like a good play, so I began Osman's book with enthusiasm.
Human weight is the measure of all that duplicity and theft.
I picture that it happens and therefore it has. The picturing, as mentioned above, is much slower, the more luxurious side of the project. A wealth of opportunity leading to the back of the mouth tightly. My mouth is warm. He has become dead in his attempts to stand, incapable of affectation.