Mónica de la Torre
Mónica de la Torre’s seven poetry books include Pause the Document, just out from Nightboat Books and from which these poems are taken. Other books include Repetition Nineteen, The Happy End / All Welcome, and two collections in Spanish published in her native Mexico City. Among other anthologies, she co-edited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79. She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College's Creative Writing MFA program.
Mónica de la Torre’s seven poetry books include Pause the Document, just out from Nightboat Books and from which these poems are taken. Other books include Repetition Nineteen, The Happy End / All Welcome, and two collections in Spanish published in her native Mexico City. Among other anthologies, she co-edited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79. She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College's Creative Writing MFA program.
You thought this would be
a dance lesson,
things were easier then.
No marimbas, no clarinets;
only a longing for the fun
to begin.
Rain came down.
I’m afraid beaches are too.
I’m afraid nudist ones are no exception.