Elegy Pantoum
By Dean Rader
“I don’t want to be the blood on the blade, / but the world is a walking war, / and every inch of air is a wound.”
Dean Rader’s debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. Three new books appeared in 2017: Suture, collaborative poems written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence Press), Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon), and Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, edited with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon). He is also the editor of 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: An Anthology of Poetry. Dean writes regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, BOMB, and The Kenyon Review. He is an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a professor at the University of San Francisco.
By Dean Rader
“I don’t want to be the blood on the blade, / but the world is a walking war, / and every inch of air is a wound.”