Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas's most recent books are Pandemic Almanac (2022) and Love and Dread (2021). Ghost Guest is forthcoming later this year. She is Professor of English Emerita at Rutgers-Newark, where she taught for many years.

Poetry

‘The Thumb of Thetis’, ‘Mother. Here. If.’, and ‘A Piece of Wood’

The Thumb of Thetis Grasping him by one little foot to dip him in the mystic river, Thetis (how can she forget?) overlooks this: that where her thumb presses his flesh, he still is dry instead of drenched in deathless wet, hence subject to mortality. When her baby is a

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