First Things RSS Feed - David Yezzi https://www.firstthings.com/author/david-yezzi en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:54 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/david-yezzi 60 Cancer Dog https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/06/cancer-dog https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/06/cancer-dog Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Her open wound accuses you. It leaves
its traces in the corner where she sleeps.

She sleeps a lot and rises painfully.
Outside she sniffs at markings. It is spring.

Her limp complains you’ve already begun
to go, that you have gone with the betrayers.

Always in her view you are the arm
that, tied to her, is endlessly receding;

now there is no lead at all to bind you
together, worn apart or else gnawed through.

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]]> The Poetry of Paradise https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/01/the-poetry-of-paradise https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/01/the-poetry-of-paradise Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Paradiso
by dante alighieri
translated by robert and jean hollander
doubleday, 944 pages, $40

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