"A white sun in its wet sentences"
Buson, Tsvestaeva, Herbert, Niedecker, Flaubert, Baraka
Buson (trans. Robert Hass):
Marina Tsvetaeva to Rainer Maria Rilke, May 9, 1926 (trans. Margaret Wettlin, Walter Arndt, and Jamey Gambrell):
Zbigniew Herbert (trans. John and Bogdana Carpenter):
Lorine Niedecker:
Gustave Flaubert, letter to George Sand, 1871:
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka:
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