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.

Untitled Self-Portrait

by Dean Rader

Nothing is like what it is:

the sun, the moon, the meadow

on the other side of the mountain,

the conversation we’re having,

my body beneath these clothes.
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