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 shadow “replaced / by a black wolf” and calls the body “more than / a portion of night — sealed / with bruises.” This poem, which opens the collection (*) New Poems, 1908: The Other Part, contrasts a “dark center where procreation flared” with “a lamp … now turned to low [that] gleams in all its power” in a translation by Stephen Mitchell. This thing-poem opens, “We cannot know his legendary head / with eyes like ripening fruit.” (-5[1])For 10 points, the command “You must change your life” (10[1])ends what Rainer Maria Rilke poem about a statue? ■END■