52 Poems and Short Stories or What is A Story About The Body?
Robert Hass Robert Haas is a poet, was the Poet Laureate of the U.S. 1995-1997, won a Pulitzer for poetry in 2008, but "A Story About The Body" isn't a poem is it? Is it a short story? I t hink this is a very, very, short story or some kind of a free form poem. Am I right? If someone out there knows, now is the time to speak up. This story is not about a woman's body. It's about a young composer's disgust and fear when confronted with an authentically sexy woman who had a mastectomy. In my opinion he definitely was not ready for that woman. He was obsessed with the feelings in his body and mind. He didn't even she her. The man didn't even know what a mastectomy was. He did not understand her body. What seemed to turn him on about her was that she was something new he had never before experienced with his body. She was an older Japanese woman, talented, and comfortable with her body and ...