write a response about the poems, story and the film 1) How are the speakers of the three poems different and distinct from each other? How is each speaker thinking about/enacting a different notions of "desire"from the others? 2) "Car Crash While Hitch-

Poems of Desire

After tsang chih Alice Notley

I was brought up in a small town in the Mohave Desert.

The boys wouldn’t touch me who was dying to be touched,

Because I was too quote

Smart. Which the truck-drivers didn’t think as they

Looked and waved

On their way through town, on the way to my World.

New Hampshire Marble Jack Gilbert

I called Sue the week I moved back from Rome.

She was getting married on Sunday she said,

but would drive over after lunch to say goodbye.

Later, in the tall grass between some homes,

we were searching around in the torn dirt,

frantic and laughing. Trying to find

the huge diamond engagement ring.

Our bodies flaring in the winter moonlight.

This close Dorianne Laux

In the room where we lie,

light stains the drawn shades yellow.

We sweat and pull at each other, climb

with our fingers the slippery ladders of rib.

Wherever our bodies touch, the flesh

comes alive. Head and need, like invisible

animals, gnaw at my breast, the soft

insides of your thighs. What I want

I simply reach out and take, no delicacy now,

the dark human bread I eat handful

by greedy handful. Eyes fingers, mouths,

sweet leeches of desire. Crazy woman,

her brain full of bees, see how her palms curl

into fists and beat the pillow senseless.

And when my body finally gives in to it

then pulls itself away, salt-laced

and arched with its final ache, I am

so grateful I would give you anything, anything.

If I loved you, being this close would kill me.