Patrick Rosal is the author of The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems (Persea Books, 2021), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright research program. A distinguished professor at Rutgers University – Camden, Rosal is working on a collection of prayer poems as well as a prose book on the sacred.
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Despedida Prayer
For C BoogzThis prayer is forthe before timePrayerfor the after Thisthank-you for beforethe beforeThis thank-you forthe afterThank you forthe now back beforeBefore the whenbeginsThis prayera thank-you beforeall our afterendsThe now […]
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A Prayer Against Etiquette
Is it not holy — the way my love foregoesthe formalities of a spoon?This peasant posture,the silly slump of her spine, the egret angle of her elbowsnudging some invisibleneighbor’s ribs. Tell mewhat […]