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Sandra Simonds is the author of eight books of poetry and one novel, Assia, based on the life of Assia Wevill (Noemi Press, 2023). She is currently at Bennington College in Vermont. Her poems and criticism have been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Best American Poetry, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, the Chicago Review, Granta, Ploughshares, Fence, Court Green, and Lana Turner.
To not have had the luxury to think “the world is over,” but to feel it instead.
As if pleasure isn’t
historical. As if our bodies
are not
tightened, thinned,
or relaxed according to
dictators, bureaucrats, the inventors
of trans fats.
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