View this email on a browserForward to a friend
October 24, 2014
 

Bodhisattva

 
Sarah Arvio

About This Poem

 

“When the bodhisattva showed up in this poem, I’m not sure I knew he was on the way to enlightenment (bodhi meaning enlightenment—not body!—and sattva meaning body.) Isn’t this what we long for in love, an evolution toward amorous enlightenment? We want our no-love neurosis to turn into new roses.”
—Sarah Arvio

 

Sarah Arvio is the author of night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis (Knopf, 2014). She is a translator for the United Nations in Switzerland and lives in Maryland by the Chesapeake Bay.

Most Recent Book by Arvio

 

"syntax" by Maureen N. McLane

read-more

"It Was Raining in Delft" by Peter Gizzi

read-more

"Blue" by May Swenson

read-more

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Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.

 
Advertisement