Lisa Russ Spaar

Lisa Russ Spaar has published over ten books of poetry and criticism, most recently Monticello in Mind: 50 Contemporary Poems on Jefferson and Orexia: Poems.  She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of Virginia.

Four Poems

With sight aborted would I be
    you, bloodstone chamber
beside the lost-to-me river?

You be my business?
   Not these words that return you
only in dreams

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