Dean Rader has written, edited, or coedited numerous books, including the poetry collections Works & Days, which won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry; and Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly (Copper Canyon Press, 2023), in which his poems and Twombly’s works appear side-by-side. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco.

Self-Portrait in Space

by Dean Rader

We only know

who we are


in relation to
something else.


Perspective
is another word


for distance,
which is another


word for removal.
The earth is a dime
People on couch
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