Chana Bloch, Poet and Translator (1940-2017)
New York Times June 11, 2017

Tired Sex

I catch myself yawning.
    Through the window
I watch that sparrow
the cat keeps batting around.
Like turning the pages of a
    book he teacher assigned
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You ought to read it, she said.
It's great literature.

"What interests me is the inner life:  how we are formed by our losses and those of our parents, how we learn what we need to know through our intuitions and confusions, how we deny and delay and finally discover who we are."  Her most recent poetry collection is "The Moon Is Almost Full," scheduled to be published in September by Autumn House Press.