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.

Poem Begun During Separation but Completed in Union

by Dean Rader
Listen to Dean Rader read his poem:

For Cassie and John

from unus Latin for one which reminds me of ōkeanós Greek for the great
    stream
encircling the earth’s disk
infinite ring of becoming I slip into here in the waters


off Ocean Beach all waves one wave a metaphor for everything which is what
this day is everything and what if I write it again everything twice in the same line
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