Here is the “X” section
of the Rosenbach alphabet. Linh Dinh has just returned to
X
Where my
home used to be,
Where my
face used to be,
Always firm
and frontal,
It has
become my first and last name.
It is the
only word I know.
Behind this
x sign here
Is another x
sign (here),
Perched on a
swirly stool,
Coy,
exasperated,
Waiting for that final x.
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
