and device against vampires, can't stop the butterfly from vanishing. But the braided stanzas of a poem are tenacious, forming a tough loop of imagination and language that might outlast death. Whether the writer's war zone is a country, or her body, or both, this poem reminds us, as does the poetry of [Mahmoud] Darwish, that the demand is essentially the same: to bear witness.[--by Marilyn Hacker]
A Braid of Garlic
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: A Braid of Garlic by Marilyn Hacker
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