FOUR WAY REVIEW

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THE PLEASURE IS IN THE WORK by Stella Hayes

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                     Books I put up next to you.

As close as I can without belonging. Gods in awe of other gods.

                     Digging up love as new each time. 

 

                     As I show a willingness to love

You in one lifetime. Rodin’s marble back. 

                     A fragment in my hand.

 

                     How you contract in me. 

This is what I know. I am here alone. 

                     Death is only good at one thing.

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Stella Hayes
Ukrainian-American poet Stella Hayes is the author of the poetry collection One Strange Country (What Books Press, 2020). She grew up in Brovary, a suburb outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, and in Los Angeles. She earned a creative writing degree at University of Southern California and is a graduate student at NYU studying for an M.F.A. in poetry. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Poetry Project’s The Recluse, Stanford’s Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation, The Lake, Prelude, Spillway, among others. She’s poetry editor at Washington Square Review.