[诗歌]   Asking for More

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by Sarah Manguso

I am not asking to suffer less.
I hope to be nearly crucified.
To live because I don’t want to.

That hope, that sweet agent—
My best work is its work.
The horse I ride into Hell is my best horse
And bears its name.
So, friends, drink your cocktails and wear your hats.
Thank you for leaving me this whole world to go mad in.

I am not asking for mercy. I am asking for more.
I don’t mind when no mercy comes
Or when it comes in the form of my mad self
Running at me. I am not asking for mercy.


From:http://www.fishousepoems.org/arc ... king_for_more.shtml

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Sarah Manguso was born in Massachusetts in 1974, earned degrees from Harvard College and the University of Iowa, and held the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Her first book, The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James Books, 2002), was named a Best Book of the Year by The Village Voice. Her second book, Siste Viator (Four Way Books, 2006), is forthcoming. Her writing has been anthologized in The Best of McSweeney’s (Vol. 1) and three volumes of the Best American Poetry series. She has taught at the Pratt Institute and in the Graduate Writing Program at New School University, and has read and lectured throughout the United States. She lives in Brooklyn.