Daniel Bosch's poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in magazines such as Poetry, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Partisan Review, Agni, Poetry Daily, and Harvard Review, where he was Poetry Editor for Issues 19 and 20. His set of four poems riffing on the films of Tom Hanks won the first Boston Review Poetry Prize (1998), and his book Crucible was published by Handsel Books in 2002.
I Scene: The hilltop retreat of the ascetic Skepticus, high above the City. Small, uneven open space amid rocks, center. A rocky path leads upstage left, and, eventually, down the…