Words Taken to Heart: Four Answers to One Question

Allen Grossman

2003

You Will Be Wrapped in Silk
“And how do you merit to live so long?”
—Because I know there is need to consider.
At my birth someone said, “He will be wrapped
in silk.” And now the guests are arriving.
The meaning of a prophecy (which they know)
has drawn them here at the appointed time
for the reason that something is coming to pass
that…
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Creator Bio

Allen Grossman

1932–2014
Allen Grossman was a postmodern poet born in Minneapolis. He taught at Brandeis University and was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Grossman earned three Pushcart Prizes, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Bassine Citation from the Academy of American Poets, and Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.

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