She stole my car she stole my mind
She drove me mad she drove me blind
She took my love she took my youth
Now what use is this stolen time

She even tried to steal my death
All out of breath I lost my way
She took my seed she shook my soul
All the hours we shared she stole

The life she led the good she spoilt
She led a stolen life of crime
She broke my health I licked her sores
I paid the cost she paid me back

She opened doors but opened wounds
She calculated all the time
She won my trust then wrote me off
Loss was the only thing I found

You held me back you tied me down
I loved you but I won’t steal you back
You rode the storm you barred the rhyme
You stole my stars you stole my time

Présentation de l’auteur

Adrian Grafe

Adrian Grafe est né en Angleterre, où il a grandi. Diplôme d’Oxford. Auteur de monographies de Hopkins et d’Emily Dickinson et directeur ou co-directeur de plusieurs ouvrages consacrés à la poésie anglaise moderne. A publié quelques poèmes dans des revues et a dirigé le dossier Hopkins de NUNC (juin 2012). Collabore à la chronique des livres des Etvdes pour la littérature anglaise et co-dirige, avec Emily Taylor Merriman, la chronique des livres du Hopkins Quarterly (Philadelphie). Il enseigne la poésie et la littérature anglophone, ainsi que la traduction, à l’université d’Artois. Il vit à Paris.

Adrian Grafe was born and raised in Oxfordshire and studied at Oxford University. He is the author of monographs of Hopkins and Emily Dickinson, and has edited or co-edited several volumes of essays on modern British poetry. He has published poems in small magazines and edited the Hopkins dossier of NUNC (June 2012). He is a contributor on English literature to the Book Reviews section of the Etvdes and co-edits with Emily Taylor Merriman the Book Reviews section of the Hopkins Quarterly (Philadelphia). He was named a Fellow of the English Association (GB) in 2011 and appointed a member of Pacific Coast Philology’s consultative committee in 2012. He teaches English-language poetry and literature, and translation, at Université d’Artois and lives in Paris.