The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s sonnet “Archaic Torso of Apollo” ends with the line “You must change your life.” Ocean Vuong’s truncated almost-sonnet responds — by speculating ...

A friend showed me the poem “The Archaic Torso of Apollo” on her phone, and told me,“I read this, and I know I want to change my life.” I read it, too. That last line! It swept me off my feet.

A friend showed me the poem “The Archaic Torso of Apollo” on her phone, and told me, “I read this, and I know I want to change my life.” I read it, too. That last line! It swept me off my ...

In “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” we have the message imparted by the sensuous, broken torso of Apollo and the poet’s apprehension of it. ... The poem begins with a statement of fact: ...

The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke was once a popular whipping boy among Anglophone poetry's anti-Romantics. Flicks of the knotted towel came from John Berryman ("Rilke was a jerk"); W H Auden ...

A friend showed me the poem “The Archaic Torso of Apollo” on her phone, and told me, “I read this, and I know I want to change my life.” I read it, too. That last line! It swept me off my ...