The 29th of Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin opens by mentioning the last line of this poem, which he contrasts (-5[1])with the last line of Ruth Stone’s “A Moment.” A Mark Doty interview about this poem notes a translation from the collection Ahead of All Parting preserved its “sonnetness.” A response to this poem imagines waking and finding one’s (15[1])shadow (15[1])“replaced / by a black wolf” (15[1])and calls the body “more than / a portion of night (15[1])— sealed (15[1])/ with (15[1])bruises.” This poem, which opens the collection (*) New Poems, 1908: (10[1])The Other Part, contrasts a “dark center where procreation flared” (10[5]-5[1])with (10[2])“a lamp (10[2])… now turned to low [that] gleams in all its power” in a translation by Stephen Mitchell. This thing-poem opens, “We cannot know (10[1])his legendary head / with eyes (10[1])like (10[1])ripening fruit.” (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, the command “You must change your life” (10[1])ends what Rainer Maria Rilke poem about a statue? ■END■