Yes, I Am A Destroyer Shakespeare and for the society in

and for the society in which we live

Robyn Schiff

enthusiast

the poems presented here seek to revisit and challenge foundational narratives

includes four book-length poems from the middle of her career: The History of Violets (1965)

Yes, I Am A Destroyer Shakespeare and for the society inMira Mattar 'I travel far across the city, cut it knowingly, concealing behind me the entrances to tunnels, altering the signage. I traverse the grimiest bowels, skirt the farthest wettest edges like a silverfish active only in the hallucinatory hours, to avoid becoming known, to avoid any collusion between my body and theirs, its.' Under the neon sky of a sick city, which might be London, a nameless governess oscillates between lucidity and