Elsa Is Involved in a Clandestine Love Affair by Angela Veronica Wong

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend March 2, 2017   Elsa Is Involved in a Clandestine Love Affair   Angela Veronica Wong

There is no fixed place and by that I mean take a look at things that are. Split by the turn of year, its newness and all it brings, which of its possibilities can we trust? Elsa is involved in a clandestine love affair which, let's be honest, should be all love affairs until they're over. She finds herself dreaming of children and many other delicacies. Sugared eggs. A lost palace. But night brings a great expanse and it's much too quiet in these hallways. On her back, Elsa holds her breath, her hands beneath her, resisting, resisting. That temptation can be such a dirty rat.            Copyright © 2017 Angela Veronica Wong. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "'Elsa Is Involved in a Clandestine Love Affair' is from a series of sonnets about a fictional mistress of Louis XV. The series explores persona and character, gendered emotional saturation, and legacies of colonialism by juxtaposing 18th-century language and historical detail with modern phrases and contemporary culture." —Angela Veronica Wong   Angela Veronica Wong is the author of Elsa: An Unauthorized Autobiography, forthcoming in 2017 from Black Radish Books. She lives in New York City.     Poetry by Wong   Elsa: An Authorized Autobiography (Black Radish Books, 2017)  "The Affair" by Wayne Miller "All those Attempts in the Changing Room!" by Anne Stevenson "Muse Not Muse" by Rosanna Warren Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. If you enjoy Poem-a-Day, please consider making a donation to help make it possible. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038