Poem by Lucy Ives - Poem for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C can be found here)
Poem
Lucy Ives
to accompany the lectionary reading: Deuteronomy 30: 9-14
SNIPPET:
This isn’t a great poem.
I’m not writing this to write a great poem.
I am writing this because I am one person.
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Lucy Ives (born 1980) is an American novelist, poet, and critic. She graduated from Harvard University with a BA and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA. Ives earned her PhD in comparative literature from New York University. She won the Slope Editions Book Prize for her long poem Anamnesis (2009), and her novel Impossible Views of the World (2017) was chosen as a New York Times Editors' Choice. (via Wikipedia)