DEAN RADER
Dean Rader has authored or co-authored twelve books, including Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, Landscape Portrait Figure Form, named a Barnes & Noble Best Book, and Works & Days, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, appeared in 2023. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.
The dead are at
my door again
like an ocean
without wave
or curve
without
the bullet holes
of the moon
I think of poems first and foremost as visual texts. I want them to communicate as something being seen before they communicate as something being read. I feel like we see with our heart and read with our head. I want your heart to be quickened so your brain is more eager to follow.
December 16, 2024
