"a small planet made of emptiness"
Gelman, Oppen, Coleman, Mandelstam, Kerouac, Herbert, Jarrell
Juan Gelman (trans. Hardie St. Martin):
George Oppen:
Some ideas are not politically useful, or useful to the childhood of a daughter.
Wanda Coleman:
Osip Mandelstam (trans. Clarence Brown and W.S. Merwin):
Jack Kerouac:
Zbigniew Herbert (trans. John and Bogdana Carpenter):
Randall Jarrell:
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