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 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 (10[1])“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 (10[1])like ripening fruit.” For 10 points, the command “You must change your life” ends what Rainer Maria Rilke poem about a statue? ■END■