Melissa Kwasny is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Nine Senses (Milkweed Editions, 2011) and the editor of Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (Wesleyan University Press, 2004). The italicized lines in this poem are from Richard Miles.
Melissa Kwasny
Ophelia Among the Flowers
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