BE(LONGING)
Kassell, Nancy Poetry. Women's Studies. Our core, our humanity, finds expression in language. That core is linked by a genetic thread to other living beings. It is linked to a human past that is personal, social, and universal. These reflections and relationships are counterpoint to a moment of beauty, or perhaps horror: "Red surge of war news: rubble / bodies fragile, fragility understood and denied" ("Heart Valves"). The poems in BE(LONGING) explore being,...