On Recalling Joel Peter Witkin’s “The Kiss” on a Woodland Walk in Autumn

Györgyi Vörös is the author of Notions of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (University of Iowa Press, 1997). Her poems have appeared in Hotel Amerika, AGNI, Boulevard, Parnassus, and other journals. She currently teaches English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. (updated 2004)