Help Me With The Buttons
By Siv Cedering
Help me
with
the buttons
my body
is
the only clothing
I can possibly
wear
— from: Letters From The Floating World. Sid Cedering. University of Pittsburg Press. Pittsburg. 1984.
Siv Cedering (February 5, 1939 – November 17, 2007) was an award-winning Swedish-American poet, writer, and artist. She was the author of eighteen books plus four books of translations, she also was an exhibiting sculptor and painter, a book illustrator, and a writer of songs and TV programs for children. She appeared in Harper’s, Science, Ms., The New Republic, Paris Review, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Partisan Review, and in approximately 200 anthologies and textbooks.