Skip to Content

Advertisement

Politics Literature Arts Ideas
short logo
Sign In Subscribe
Politics Literature Arts Ideas
The New York Books Review Homepage Logo.
Politics United States International Human Rights Climate Change
Literature Fiction Poetry Biography & Memoir In Translation Essays
Arts Visual Arts Performing Arts Film & Television Music Society & Culture
Ideas History Economics Science & Technology Law Philosophy & Religion

More from the Review

Events All Issues About Us
Shop Literary Gifts Shop NYRB Classics

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest

April 9, 2026

Current Issue

Image of the April 9, 2026 issue cover.
NYBooks Logo. Link to Homepage
Sign In Subscribe
Site logo
Politics Collapse
United States International Human Rights Climate Change
Literature Collapse
Fiction Poetry Biography & Memoir In Translation Essays
Arts Collapse
Visual Arts Performing Arts Film & Television Music Society & Culture
Ideas Collapse
History Economics Science & Technology Law Philosophy & Religion
Current Issue

Current Issue

More from the Review

Events All Issues About Us
Shop Literary Gifts Shop NYRB Classics

Blend

Rae Armantrout
a poem

December 8, 2022 issue

Visit us on Facebook! Opens External Webpage
Visit us on Twitter! Opens External Webpage
Visit us on Threads! Opens External Webpage
Visit us on Bluesky! Opens External Webpage
Mail to Print page

Submit a letter:

Email us letters@nybooks.com

A full-blown
salmon-colored
rose
at the end of its
long, thin stem
is the only lamp

this morning;

a blend
of anger and longing—

resentment—

having nowhere to go,
persists.

*

“Hitch your wagon
to a star,”

the man said.

Anything that burns.

This Issue

December 8, 2022

Image of the December 8, 2022 issue cover.
Peter Canby

The Death Squad Dossier

Edward Mendelson

Life, Death, This Moment of June

Ada Wordsworth

Ukrainian Lessons at the Train Station

All Contents
Visit us on Facebook! Opens External Webpage
Visit us on Twitter! Opens External Webpage
Visit us on Threads! Opens External Webpage
Visit us on Bluesky! Opens External Webpage
Mail to Print page
Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout’s most recent book of poems is Go Figure. Her book Safe Rooms will be published next year. (November 2025)

This Issue

December 8, 2022

Image of the December 8, 2022 issue cover.
Peter Canby

The Death Squad Dossier

Edward Mendelson

Life, Death, This Moment of June

Ada Wordsworth

Ukrainian Lessons at the Train Station

All Contents

Read Next

Andrea Cohen

Bunker

a poem

June 10, 2021 issue

Richard Sieburth

Early Alzheimer’s

a poem

June 23, 2022 issue

Rae Armantrout

It

a poem

May 27, 2021 issue

Rae Armantrout

Lapse

a poem

December 2, 2021 issue

Maya C. Popa

Turkey Vultures

a poem

January 13, 2022 issue

Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

Istanbul

a poem

November 24, 2022 issue

Diane Seuss

Curl

a poem

November 18, 2021 issue

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Clocked In Still Starving

a poem

September 23, 2021 issue

Subscribe to the New York Review

Subscribe and save 50%!

Get immediate access to the current issue, exclusive online content, and over 25,000 archive articles, plus the NYR App.

See Offers

Already a subscriber? Sign in

Subscribe to our Newsletters

Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest. Or, see all newsletter options here.

About Us Archive Classifieds Advertising Help/FAQ Newsletters Shop Literary Gifts Shop NYRB Classics
Shop Literary Gifts Shop NYRB Classics
About Us Archive Classifieds Advertising
Help/FAQ Newsletters Shop Literary Gifts Shop NYRB Classics

© 1963-2026 NYREV, Inc. All rights reserved.

Terms of Service Privacy Statement Subscription Customer Service Accessibility Statement Site by Athletics